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Saturday, May 3, 2008
‘Juno’: It’s a must-rent!
Most parents don’t get baby sitters often enough.
Skyline, the schoolyard and ‘Spiderwick’ notwithstanding, we don’t go out to eat often enough, we don’t get together with friends often enough, and we definitely don’t go to movies often enough.
Some parents I know have never even been away from their children overnight, which I think is a darn shame. I mean, I love my kids to the core of my being, but a weekend away with Hubby is pure bliss.
We have to steal our ‘me-time’ moments when we can. That’s why I say: Thank God for DVDs!
We’ve rushed the kids to bed more Saturday nights than I can count, eager to make nachos, mix a cocktail and settle back with a good movie. Last Saturday night — with “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead” tempting us from its little jewel box atop the TV — I turned to Hubby and asked if he was ready to put the kids to bed. He said, “It’s only 7:30!”
Maybe I get a little too eager for “date night” to begin.
Anywho, on with my mini review of ‘Juno,” the best movie I’ve seen in a while.
You’ve read the reviews: Wise-cracking pregnant teen makes hard choice. But, oh, ‘Juno’ is so much more than that. It’s the kind of movie that you’re sad to see end.
The talented cast — including Oakwood’s own Allison Janney — created quirky characters that really stick with you. Watching the dynamics between father and daughter, stepmom and stepdaughter, pregnant friend and nonpregnant friend, prospective adoptive parents, and the teenage lovers felt so real, it hardly seemed like they were acting.
Ellen Page simply charms the screen. The scenes have this duality thing going, portraying real-life scary issues with the floaty feeling of teenage surreality. Like “Napoleon Dynamite” with an edge.
And the choice that Juno made surprised even me, someone who prides herself in being able to unfold a movie’s plot before anyone else in the room.
‘Juno’ is sweet, witty and wry. Give it a try!
