Juno - Audio CD by Rhino Records - 410236

• 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

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
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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