Made for TV movie

Rating: 6/10 (18 April 2008)

A High School girl, Juno (Page), gets pregnant and decides to give the baby to a childless couple.
This had the feel of The Wonder Years (TV) show. But, the narrator (Juno) becomes pregnant and that could have meant a lot of possibilities, but they never materialized and the writers took the safe road and not much was going to happen in here. It was a nice slice of life without the complications about a teenage girl who becomes pregnant that would have been conjured up. No tension, no parental battles, no input from the father (Cera) other than to say it was up to Juno to do what she thought best. There is a little hitch in the process, but it is quickly worked out. Oh, and BTW, The Wonder Years TV show had a lot of complications. Maybe the writers should have watched some episodes.
The acting was fine by the entire cast, but the writers had a lot of fun making a 16-year old girl produce dialog and wisdom that were beyond her years. Was this why this movie was nominated for Best Picture?
The little music diddies were good, but they were short lived and the one at the end of the movie was barely audible. There were some clever lines, but not LOL ones.
On the whole, this movie was nice, safe and really didn't have to be made, and really didn't have to be nominated for Best Picture either. But, it was. Didn't win. Ellen Page was nominated for Best Actress. She was okay, but I didn't see an Oscar performance in her. Didn't win. The Director was nominated for Best Director. Why? What was so special about his directing? Anyway.didn't win. And, lastly, the movie was nominated for Original Screenplay. Originality? A safe road, not often traveled and they want to give it an award? Didn't win. Like I said, this had the feel of a made-for-TV movie and they want to award Oscars for it?
Violence: No, Sex: No, Nudity: No, Language: I may have heard one F bomb, but am not sure, Sex Talk: A lot of this.