Juno 2007  PG-13, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Jason Reitman
Cast: Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Allison Janney, J.K. Simmons, Olivia Thirlby, Rainn Wilson, Daniel Clark, Darla Vandenbossche, Aman Johal, Valerie Tian, Emily Perkins, Kaaren de Zilva, Eileen Pedde
Ellen Page takes the role of 16-year-old Juno MacGuff who became pregnant after her first sexual experience with her geeky friend Paulie (Michael Cera). Opting for adoption as a solution to her situation, Juno finds an ad in a magazine and contacts prospective adoptive parents Vanessa and Mark Loring (Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman). Now, the story focuses on Juno's relationship with the Lorings–one of whom is more interested in adoption than the other, and Juno learns that things may not always go as planned. The film won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay; three other nominations were received: Best Picture, Actress (Page), and Director.
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Marion Bridge 2002  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Wiebke von Carolsfeld
Cast: Molly Parker, Stacy Smith, Marguerite McNeil, Ellen Page, Hollis McLaren, Emmy Alcorn, Joseph Rutten, Nicola Lipman, Jackie Torrens, Kevin Curran, Linda Busby, Rebecca Jenkins
When Agnes (Molly Parker) returns to Nova Scotia to help care for her dying mother (Marguerite McNeill), she also must confront her two sisters (Stacy Smith and Rebecca Jenkins) from whom she has been estranged. As family members begin to deal with each other, long-hidden secrets are revealed.
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Smart People 2008  R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Noam Murro
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Haden Church, Ellen Page, Ashton Holmes, Christine Lahti, Camille Mana, David Denman, Don Wadsworth, Robert Haley, Patrick Sebes, Kevin James Doyle
English Professor Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid) is widowed and raising his 17-year-old daughter Vanessa (Ellen Page). His grown son James (Ashton Holmes) drops by from time to time, and both James and Vanessa present him with more than a few problems. One day, Lawrence's brother Chuck (Thomas Haden Church) appears at the door in need of a home. As if he did not have enough problems, Lawrence suffers a brain injury, and the very unreliable Chuck offers to be his chauffeur. While in the emergency room, Lawrence encounters Dr. Janet Hartigan (Sarah Jessica Parker) who is a former student of his, and it appears that Janet is about to change forever the direction of his self-absorbed life.
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Whip It 2009 PG-13, 111 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Drew Barrymore
Cast: Ellen Page, Marcia Gay Harden, Kristen Wiig, Drew Barrymore, Juliette Lewis, Jimmy Fallon, Alia Shawkat, Eulala Scheel, Sarah Habel, Shannon Eagen, Edward Austin Austin, Mary Callaghan Lynch, Barbara Coven, Nina Kircher, Daniel Stern
Seventeen-year-old Bliss Cavendar (Ellen Page) has been competing in beauty pageants to keep her mother, Brooke (Marcia Gay Harden), happy. But, after Bliss and her friend, Pash Amini (Alia Shawkat), watch a roller derby, Bliss decides to forget beauty pageants and try to join the roller derby team, the Hurl Scouts. Her mentor, Maggie Mayhem (Kristen Wiig) suggests that Bliss try out for the team. Bliss is the fastest girl on the track, and now, as "Babe Ruthless," Bliss becomes a star on the team. But, will she be able to keep her new life a secret from her mother?
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 X-Men: The Last Stand 2006  PG-13, 105 min.
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi
Director: Brett Ratner
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, Anna Paquin, Kelsey Grammer, Patrick Stewart, James Marsden, Shawn Ashmore, Aaron Stanford, Vinnie Jones, Rebecca Romijn, Ben Foster, Dania Ramirez, Ellen Page
In this last entry of the X-Men trilogy, those mutant heroes are back and must now face a choice to retain their unique powers or give up those powers and become human. Battle lines are drawn with mutant leader Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) preaching tolerance versus Magneto (Ian McKellen) who believes in survival of the fittest. Their followers meet on Alcatraz Island–after Magneto levitates the Golden Gate Bridge–and a battle follows involving not only the two mutant armies but the real army that, instead of firing guns, fires needles filled with a potion to cure the mutants.
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| 1. Hard Candy (2006)
2. Juno (2007)
3. Marion Bridge (2002)
4. Smart People (2008)
5. Whip It (2009)
6. X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
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