Essential Films to See at Least Once Before You Die

Juno

Elliot Page and Michael Cera star as precocious teen Juno MacGuff and track-shorted Paulie Bleeker in Juno, a coming-of-age tale that won the 2008 Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Pregnant Juno selects a failed rockstar and his wife to adopt her unborn child, but things take an unexpected turn when she becomes more than just the family's birth mother.

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The More You Know

  • Reed Hasting started Netflix after receiving $40 in late fees when returning Apollo 13.
  • February used to be the last month of the year, which is why it has the shortest number of days.
  • Keanu Reeves used his profit from The Matrix to buy a motorcycle for all of the movie's stuntmen.
  • In classic Hitchcock movie North by Northwest, Cary Grant was actually older than his on-screen mother, Jessie Royce Landis.
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