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After having sex with her friend Paulie Bleeker, sixteen year old Juno MacGuff finds out that she is pregnant. While confronting her parents, and trying to find a solution to her problem, Juno decides to give her baby up for adoption. Looking in the local newspaper, she finds a couple whom she deems to be the perfect parents. Upon meeting them, though they look like they have a rather nice and almost perfect life, she sees the couple may not have it all together. This causes Juno to re-examine the relationships in her own life, and wonder if any kind of love can really last a lifetime.
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* [[Adorkable]]: Paulie Bleeker.
* [[Alcohol Is Poison]]: When she first meets the adoptive parents, 16-year-old Juno asks for a Maker's Mark to drink.
{{quote|"She's kidding. June-bug has a wonderful sense of humor--just one of her many genetic gifts."}}
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* [[An Aesop]]: Thankfully, it's not "Don't get pregnant as a teenager". It's more along the lines of "A true love will stick with you no matter what happens...even if you have to go through the drama of getting pregnant as a teenager".
* [[Animated Credits Opening]]
* [[Artistic License: Biology]]: Fetuses wouldn't have fingernails that early in the pregnancy. Somewhat [[Justified Trope|Justified]] since Juno and her friends aren't really the type to [[Did Not Do the Research|research]] that kind of thing, they took the words of a protester (who, let's face it, was not that smart: "all babies want to get borned" anyone?) at face value and ran with it.
* [[Book Ends]]: It began and ended with a chair.
* [[Buffy-Speak]] and/or [[Totally Radical]]: ''Much'' of the dialogue in the movie. ''"Honest to blog"'' is the most infamous line.
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* [[Law of Inverse Fertility]]: Juno has sex with Paulie once and gets pregnant; Vanessa and Mark try for five years without any success.
* [[Living in a Furniture Store]]: Averted with the MacGuff household, which has a realistic amount of knickknacks and clutter for a working class family, and with Bleeker's room. Played straight with Mark and Vanessa's house, which except for Mark's room is perfectly arranged and themed in white, beige and glass. After the adoption, Vanessa's nighttable acquires an appropriate layer of wadded tissues and baby formula.
** Perhaps done on purpose. Vanessa is implied to have an orderly life without much 'clutter'. What better way to symbolize that than to have a house with not too many small objects left lying around? Mark's room full of old records and musical paraphernalia is more messy.
* [[MacGuffin]]: Baby location.
* [[Mama Bear]]: {{spoiler|Surprisingly, Bren turns aggressive when the ultrasound nurse makes a passing comment on teenage pregnancy. It's pretty awesome ''and'' heartwarming.}}
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* [[Minnesota Nice]]: Not as over-the-top as some examples, but Juno and pretty much all of the people who she interacts with are basically nice and understanding. Even when she goes to the abortion clinic her protesting classmate doesn't make that big a deal about it.
* [[Missing Mom]]: Juno's parents are divorced and she lives with her father. Mostly averted, though, because of her step-mother, who is far from being an [[Evil Stepmother]].
* [[The Red Stapler]]: ''Juno'' caused what was, by all accounts, a staggering demand for hamburger-shaped phones. According to a New York Post article just after the film's release, burgerphone had a huge rise of 759% in a month.
* [[Poster Gallery Bedroom]]: Both Juno and Leah's bedrooms.
* [[Rule of Cool]]: Why did Juno spend the night moving and setting up an entire living room set on Paulie's front yard? Because it's simply more dramatic!
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