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Pregnancy and profanity were the big themes this year at Hollywood's pre-Oscar apertif, the Independent Spirit Awards. An undeniably expecting Angelina Jolie attended with Brad Pitt, as did an even more teeming with child Cate Blanchett, while pregnant-teen comedy Juno took home best feature film, best actress for star Ellen Page and best first screenplay for Diablo Cody...
...Superbad,” and then sprinkles some “Napoleon Dynamite” on top. That sounds like a great movie, right? It probably would be, but such a teen-pregnancy-movie-spawn has not actually been conceived.When I first saw “Juno,” I remember leaving the theater and calling the first person that came up on my phone just to tell them I had seen the worst movie since “AI” or “Bicentennial Man.” I—a man who can find...
...kids with beards--as Billy Wilder called them--are graybeards, and a younger generation is getting its turn. Paul Thomas Anderson, writer-director of the critics' darling There Will Be Blood, is 37. Jason Reitman, whose Juno is the only $100 million box-office hit of the five Best Picture finalists, is just 30. That leaves those two sassy outsiders--Joel Coen, 53, and his brother Ethan, 50--in the mainstream, though their entry, No Country for Old Men, carries the double-whammy genre curse of being a kind of western-horror movie. Can it beat out Anderson's parched...
DIABLO CODY Movie: Juno Once worked as: A stripper; a blogger Unlikely heroine: A punk-loving, pregnant teen...
...American romantic comedies like Knocked Up, Waitress and Juno, a woman's unwanted pregnancy is the springboard for sexual love, self-knowledge and, as she comes to term, the rosy maturity that Hollywood sees as motherhood. The word "abortion" is hardly spoken of; the procedure gets no serious consideration. Abortion is simply not an option for the heroines of these pictures, though it is for more than a million American women a year...