It started with a chair. Or so says the 16-year-old and very pregnant Juno, in the 2007 film of the same name, as she drinks her weight in Sunny D to check the results of her pregnancy test. When the film opens, with the instantly catchy All I Want Is You by Barry Louis Polisar playing in the background, all you see is the laidback teenager walking to the store. It’s only when she speaks to the store owner that one realises that she has already tried the test many times and has tested positive every time. And one is instantly hooked.

Juno is not like other 16-year-olds. For one she ended up “in chair” with her friend Paul Bleeker just because she was bored (even though The Blair Witch Project was on TV). The razor sharp teenager with a thing for punk rock and gory movies finds herself in murky waters as she goes to “procure a hasty abortion” and meets her classmate Su Chin, who points out the unfortunate truth that her baby already has fingernails. Unnerved, she decides to go against having one (watch out for that scene where she’s suddenly conscious of everyone in her surrounding using their nails to scratch and to drum their fingers on a surface.) She confesses all to her parents who are disappointed but supportive and finds a young upwardly mobile couple Mark and Vanessa (played by Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner), who seem like just the couple to provide a stable home for her baby.

But all is not as it seems. Are Mark and Vanessa as model a picture of parenthood as they seem to be? Why does Paul stay away? These questions are answered later in the heartwarming film that is in equal parts funny, poignant and touching. Ellen Page’s sassy yet vulnerable Juno is completely loveable. Equally convincing is Jennifer Garner as the anxious mother-to-be and JK Simmons as the disapproving but supportive father. But the real star of the movie is the screenplay. Diablo Cody’s (of the Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper) script that won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is a winner right from the start.

Watch it for the warm fuzzy afterglow it leaves. Or for the quirky soundtrack that includes everything from The Moldy Peaches to The Kinks to Antsy Pants. Just don’t miss it.