Coming to Chicago on Dec. 14, Watch Out For Acclaimed Indie Film ‘Juno’

Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on September 14, 2007 - 1:37pm.

CHICAGO – On Sept. 12, 2007, I published a list of independent films coming through the Chicago circuit over the next few months.

While I’m familiar with many of them, I wasn’t with a film called “Juno” from director Jason Reitman. It was the smash of the Toronto International Film Festival and the Telluride Film Festival.

Enough said. Watch out for it. It opens on Dec. 14 at Landmark Century Centre in Chicago. Here’s the just-released trailer.


It’s being touted as an end-of-year best screenplay possibility. The film features Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Allison Janney, J.K. Simmons, Olivia Thirlby, Rainn Wilson, Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner.

Roger Ebert on Sept. 9, 2007 said Page could snag a best-actress nomination:

I don’t know when I’ve heard a standing ovation so long, loud and warm as the one after Jason Reitman’s “Juno,” which I predict will become quickly beloved when it opens at Christmas time and win a best actress nomination for 20-year-old star Ellen Page.

HollywoodChicago.com editor-in-chief Adam Fendelman

By ADAM FENDELMAN
Editor-in-Chief
HollywoodChicago.com
adam@hollywoodchicago.com

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