Juno

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Almost a decade later, the award winning teen pregnancy movie, Juno was released. This movie is the story of a young teen named Juno who becomes pregnant after having sex with her friend Paulie. This movie is rated PG-13. Classification of the films according to Haas’ typology.
After deciding to give the baby up for adoption the film covers Juno's pregnancy arc: from telling her parents, the challenges of going to school, her changing relationship with Paulie, and the dynamics of a relationship of the adopting couple. Interestingly, unlike Tina Spangler in Fifteen and Pregnant, Juno remained perky and cute throughout the film, her studies never suffered, and she and the father of her child end up happily ever after.
Though the movie doesn't glamorize teen pregnancy, it does set up an unrealistic expectation. It oversimplifies the issue. On her own, Juno finds a advert in the paper for a (wealthy) local couple wanting to adopt a child. No legal issues here, she waives the need for a contract solid in her belief that she will have no second thoughts of wanting to keep the child. Her parents, though somewhat disappointed …show more content…

Domestically it has grossed 143, 495,265 (opening weekend it made $10,634,576) ("Weekend Box..."). The film won an academy award for original screenplay.
Critics of the film both in the US and in the UK were torn as to how the film depicted teen pregnancy. Some questioned the lack of realism and felt it portrayed teen pregnancies to be as everyday as getting teen acne. An article in the UK's Daily Mail noted the ease in which Juno tells her father about the pregnancy, and his one mildly disappointed statement provided "one of the few moments of truth in a film which otherwise manages to make the business of teen pregnancies as mundane an event as getting on the school swimming team - or not" (Boycott

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