Title: Juno

Date: 2007

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Human Growth and Development

Keywords: Adolescence, adoption, decision making, parent-child relationships, response to crises, social and cultural influences

Rating: PG 13 – Parents Strongly Cautioned

Audience(s): High School Age, College Age, Adults, Parents, Couples

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: The film follows Juno, a 16-year-old high-school junior, who discovers she is pregnant with her best friend Bleeker’s child. Juno goes in for an abortion but quickly decides against it once she is sitting in the office. Instead, she decides to have the baby and place the child with an adoptive couple. She finds the perfect couple in the PennySaver personals and decides they are the couple she wants to choose. After all the papers are signed, the waiting for Juno to have her child begins. The rest of the film follows Juno through her pregnancy and as she processes all that is occurring.

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Places to view: Itunes, Youtube, Amazon Video, Vudu, Google Play, Cinemax

Contributor: Krista Hamann