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Movie: JUNO
Time and Date: Saturday, May 3, 2008
Time: 5:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: the Methodist Church's YOUTH BUILDING located on Michigan St. (the church with the flame on the building)
City/Town: Sturgeon Bay, WI
Contact Info Phone: Kathy:9207436955
Email: doorcountydoula@yahoo.com
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THE STORY
Juno's an unusual girl whose personality matches her interesting first name. Whip-smart, witty and mature beyond her age,
Juno finds herself pregnant after a sexual encounter with her best friend, Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera). Although at first
she leans toward an abortion, going as far as to visit a clinic before opting not to go through with it (the deciding factor
is that the baby already has fingernails), Juno decides the wisest thing to do is to give the baby up for adoption. That decision
means she has to break the news to her dad (J.K. Simmons) and stepmom (Allison Janney). After all, hiding an ever increasing
tummy for nine months is not really an option.
Surprisingly, the parents take the news not quite in stride, but at least without freaking out. Dad even goes as far as
to visit the adoptive couple she's picked out from an ad, and offers to help with the legal paperwork. Dubbing herself the
"precautionary whale", Juno remains at her high school although the sideways glances she is used to receiving become
full-on glares once the pregnancy is obvious.
As the delivery date approaches, Juno reassesses her relationship with Bleeker, a boy she has always been attracted to
but has denied having feelings for; other than friendship. She's also forced into reassessing her plan to place their child
with Vanessa (Jennifer Garner) and Mark (Jason Bateman) when the couple turns out to be not quite the perfect potential adoptive
parents she thought they were.
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