Trailer Trash teen pregnancy film

Rating: 10/10 (22 January 2008)

John Malkovich has produced this screenplay by Diablo Cody with Jason Reitman directing (his previous work writing and directing "Thanking for smoking" In real life Ellen Page is a rich kid who comes across as a real smart alec and arrogant type and she manages to transfer that character into her previous role in "Hard Candy" and this role.
This supposedly hip chick foolishly get her self pregnant with a high school jock Paulie Bleeker (played by Michael Cera) and then goes about dealing with the problem.
Her very hip and sympathetic parents support her decision to adopt the baby out and the whole thing is of course really divorced from realty.
No doubt trailer park trash across the world will celebrate this silly story of teen pregnancy. There is a hint of anti "pro-choices" and "right to lifer" underlying this film.
It ends up a very silly and schmaltzy movie about teen pregnancy that has already sucked in huge box office results as you would expect in these days of really trashy films.