What is the story Juno about?

Juno is a 2007 American social drama film directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody, Ellen Page stars as the title character,an independent-minded teenager confronting an unplanned pregnancyand the subsequent events that put pressures of adult life onto her. Thfilm won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and earnedthree other Oscar nominations including Best Picture. The film confronted the issue of abortion, a sensitive subject in American culture,and won plaudits as well as criticism from members of both the pro-life and pro-choice communities.

The film tells the story of Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page), a sixteenyearold Minnesota high-schooler, who discovers she is pregnant with a child ithered by her friend and longtime admirer, Paulie Bleker (Michael Cera), While at first she intends to have an abortion, she changesher mind and decides to make a plan for the child's adoption. With thehelp of her friend Leah (Olivia Thirlby), Juno searches the ads in thePennysaver and finds a couple she feels will provide a suitable home. Along with her father, army veteran Mac (J, K, Simmons), Juno meetsthe couple, Mark and Vanessa Loring (Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner),in their expensive home and expresses a desire for a closed adoption.

Vanessa is extremely anxious around Juno and their initial interactions are uneasy, However, Juno and Leah happen to see Vanessa in ashopping mall being totally at ease with a child, and Juno encouragesVanessa to talk to Juno's baby in the womb, where it obligingly kicksfor her, On the other hand, Juno more easily forms a friendship withMark, with whom she shares tastes in Punk rock and horror films. Junohangs out with Mark a few times, ignoring a warning from her stepmotherBren(Allison Janney) that she shouldn't spend time alone with a married man.

As the pregnancy progresses, Juno struggles with the emotions she feels for her baby's father, Paulie, who is clearly, although passively in love with Juno . Juno maintains an outwardly indifferent attitude to Paulie, but when she earns he has asked another girl to the prom, She is hurt  and angrily confronts him. Paulie reminds Juno that it is at her request they remain distant and tells her that she broke his heat, He also suggests that she has feelings for him and she is unable to admit.

Not long before her baby is due, Juno is again visiting with Markmit.when their interaction becomes strongly emotional. Mark then confessethat he is leaving Vanessa Vanessa arrives home, and to her shock,Mark tells her he does not feel ready to be a father, and there are stillthings he wants to do first a dream Vanessa does not share, As shewatches their marriage fall apart, Juno leaves and cries by the side ofthe road before coming to a decision, Returning to the Lorings’ home,she leaves a note for Vanessa.

After a heartfelt discussion with her father, Juno accepts that sheloves Paulie, Juno then tells Paulie that she loves him, and Paulie's actions make clear her feelings are reciprocated, At his track meet, whenPaulie notices Juno is not in the stands and realizes she must be in labor,he rushes to the hospital to be with her (she had not told him becauseshe didn't want him to miss the meet). He arrives to find Juno has give birth, and comforts Juno as she cries. Vanessa comes to the hospital where she joyfully claims the newborn boy as a single adoptive mother.On the wall in the baby's new nursery, Vanessa has framed Juno's note,which reads “Vanessa:lf you're still in, I'm still in.-Juno”. The filmends with Juno and Paulie playing the guitar and singing together sometime later, followed by a kiss.

What are the 4 stages of social drama?

Dramatic films are serious presentations or stories with settings or life situations that portray realistic characters in conflict with either themselves, others, or forces of nature. A dramatic film shows us human beings at their best, their worst, and everything in between. Each of the types of subject-matter themes has various kinds of dramatic plots. Dramatic films are probably the largest film genre because they include a broad spectrum of films. See also crime films, melodramas, epics (historical dramas), biopics(biographical), or romantic genres just some of the other genres that have developed from the dramatic genre.

Dramatic themes often include current issues, societal ills, and problems, concerns or injustices, such as racial prejudice, religious intolerance(such as anti-Semitism), drug addiction, poverty, political unrest, the corruption of power, alcoholism, class divisions, sexual inequality, mental illness, corrupt societal institutions, violence toward women or other explosive issues of the times. These films have successfully drawn attention to the issues by taking advantage of the topical interest of the subject. Although dramatic films have often dealt frankly and realistically with social problems, the tendency has been for Hollywood, especially during earlier times of censorship, to exonerate society and institutions and to blame problems on an individual, who more often than not, would be punished for his/her transgressions.

Social dramas or “message films” expressed powerful lessons,such as the harsh conditions of southern prison systems in Hell's Highway(1932) and I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932), the plight of wandering groups of young boys on freight cars during the Depression in William Wellman's Wild Boys of the Road (1933), or the lawlessness of mob rule in Fritz Lang's Fury (1936), or the resourcefulness of lifer prisoner and bird expert Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster)in John Frankenheimer's Birdman of Alcatraz (1961), or the tale of a framed, unjustly imprisoned journalist (James Cagney)in Each Dawn I Di(1939). In Yield to the Night(1956), Diana Dors relived her life and crime as she awaited her execution. A tough, uncompromising look at New York waterfront corruption was found in the classic American film director Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront(1954) with Marlon Brando as a longshoreman who testified to the Waterfront Crimes Commission. The film drew criticism with the accusation that it appeared to justify Kazan's informant role before the HUAC.

Problems of the poor and dispossessed have often been the themes of great films, including The Good Earth(1937) with Chinese peasants facing famine, storms, and locusts, and John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath(1940)about an indomitable, Depression-Era Okie family the Joads-who survived a tragic journey from Oklahoma to California. Martin Scorsese's disturbing and violent Tari Driver (1976) told of the despairing life of a lone New York taxi cab driver amidst nighttime urban sprawl. Issues and conflicts within a suburban family were showcased in director Sam Mendes’ Best Picture American Beauty (1999), as were problems with addiction in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic (2000).