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"straight from the Juno playbook"
by frayeditor05 Editor SlateIcon

For what it's worth, Smart People was filmed before Juno (but released later), so to claim that Ellen Page's character essentially reprises her turn as "a wise-cracking adolescent" in a manner "straight from the Juno playbook" is chronologically inaccurate. A technical point more than anything else, but in the movie's defense, it cannot be called derivative on that account.

Adam

(Source of this fact: a very close friend of mine happens to be the co-producer of Smart People.)

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