Synopsis

Constantly-traveling, corporate downsizing expert Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) has grown comfortable with his odd state of rootlessness, until he meets a similarly aloof business woman Alex (Vera Farmiga), and is asked to train new hire Natalie (Anna Kendrick), who intends to streamline the firing business.

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Synopsis

Juno (Ellen Page), a teen iconoclast, gets pregnant after a one night fling with Bleeker (Michael Cera). As she deals with the repercussions of her actions and deciding what to do with her baby, she finds she has much growing up to do.

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This is a smartly cynical comedy that fictionally answers a question I’ve long had: how exactly do people in socially unacceptable lines of work live with themselves? More specifically, this movie documents the spin-doctor personality behind a tobacco industry PR guy. Namely, his job is to minimize smoking’s negative image and even claim that being anti-smoking is anti-business and hence anti-American.

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