Amazon.com: Fox Searchlight Picture’s December 2007 coming-of-age comedy Juno, directed by Jason Reitman (Thank You For Smoking). The narrative centers on whip-smart Juno (Ellen Page, in a breakthrough role), a teenage girl faced with an unplanned pregnancy from an afternoon with the charmingly unassuming Bleeker (Michael Cera). Juno finds her unborn baby the perfect set of parents in Mark and Vanessa Loring (Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner), an affluent suburban couple who are eager to adopt. Along with the total support of her parents, (Allison Janney and J.K. Simmons) Juno conquers her problems head-on, displaying a youthful exuberance that is both smart and unexpected. The film was an official selection at this year’s Telluride, Toronto, and London film festivals and received the Best Film award at the Rome International Film Festival. The soundtrack to Juno mixes classic rock favorites with indie-rock gems.
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Amazon.com: Director Jason Reitman's warm, compassionate comedy about an unanticipated teen pregnancy was not only a dark horse Oscar® nominee for Best Picture, but saw this soundtrack CD top the charts just two weeks after its release. It's a collection wherein quirky, generation-spanning folk and rock choices are rooted in something more rewarding than mere eclecticism for its own sake--namely the sense of unlikely, hopeful humanity that Kimya Dawson's core songs bring to its slightly askew axis. Dawson's spotlight performances here range from a handful of decidedly twee solo cuts, to the album's key "Anyone Else But You," (her 2001 duet with Adam Green released under the Moldy Peaches moniker,) and a couple more upbeat oddballs by the singer's more recent Antsy Pants project. That effusively innocent musical core is augmented with a pair of eminently sympathetic tracks from Scottish twee-pop magnates Belle and Sebastian, then seasoned with a mix of catalog tracks that spans eras from Buddy Holly to Sonic Youth--utilizing styles as diverse as the Kinks, Mott the Hoople, and Velvet Underground--that nonetheless manage to bolster the film's tender emotions with a graceful, (if skewed,) charm that's hard to resist. --Jerry McCulley
Disc 1:
All I Want Is You, performed and written by Barry Louis Polisar
My Rollercoaster, (Juno Film Version) performed and written by Kimya Dawson
A Well Respected Man, performed by The Kinks
Dearest, performed by Buddy Holly
Up The Spout, performed and written by Mateo Messina
Tire Swing, performed and written by Kimya Dawson
Piazza, New York Catcher, performed by Belle & Sebastian
Loose Lips, performed and written by Kimya Dawson
Superstar, performed by Sonic Youth
Sleep (Instrumental), performed and written by Kimya Dawson
Expectations, performed by Belle & Sebastian
All The Young Dudes, performed by Mott The Hoople
So Nice So Smart, performed and written by Kimya Dawson
Sea Of Love, performed by Cat Power
T15. ree Hugger, performed by Kimya Dawson and Antsy Pants
I’m Sticking With You, performed by Velvet Underground
Anyone Else But You, performed by The Moldy Peaches
Vampire, performed by Antsy Pants
Anyone Else But You, performed by Michael Cera and Ellen Page
Different in a good way. Watching the movie leaves you wanting more...so having the sound track is the closest thing. If you loved the quirky plot and excellent acting, you'd love the weird, rough-around-the-edges music, which was the amusing background to the story line. I also liked the bits of information given inside the CD cover.
Good Stuff My girlfriend and I fell in love with the music in the movie and had to get the CD. Its addictive and catchy. Love it.
great cd! this is one of my all time favorite cds. it's fun, cute, and silly and perfect for summer listening! everyone should buy this cd!
Buy it for the classic alt rock alone The classic music in this, like "all the young dudes" is the best you can find. And of course both versions of "anyone else but you" is permanently stuck in my head. The Kimya Dawson stuff does get old and makes you hate droning plain folk singers fast! Dawson really really needs to find something, anything, interesting to sing about, besides the most mondane details of life and "fu*k Bush."
Cute, like the movie I don't think these songs will stand the test of time, but they catch the feeling of kids making music, just like the good movie of Juno was fresh and young.
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