When her brother disappears she goes out around the small town alone and without winter clothes before an impending blizzard looking for him. This time she's a loner high school girl who lives with an off-the-wall family that includes a young brother who she taught to act like a dog: he walks on all fours and only barks, never talks. The Tracey Fragments is a vastly different film, far more experimental and independent, yet Ellen Page plays the main character again: 15-year-old Tracey Berkowitz. Lovely young thesp handles the reams of dialogue with poise and aplomb.' 'Film's ace in the hole, however, is Page, whose great promise indicated in 'Hard Candy' is more than confirmed by her winning performance here.

It's not just me or some petty 'online critics' who are praising Ellen in Juno - almost everyone who saw it absolutely loved it! 'The performances are all great - Page shows she can carry a film from start to finish on her petite shoulders, commanding the screen in every scene and making Juno imminently likable.' For once it's refreshing to see an actor on screen working both her physical and emotional talent to the max and not just flaunting her looks alone. Although in person her beauty melts your heart, in Juno she's not cast to look good, she's cast to act great. The film really needed a strong actress to fill the shoes of the character of Juno (its even titled Juno) and Ellen Page does it perfectly. Given the immense amount of praise the film, and specifically Ellen Page, has received so far (check out the two quotes below), when it hits theaters it will certainly become one of the most memorable performances of the year, if not of the decade. She brings a certain charm and charisma to the character that, while she doesn't have a care in the world about her 'bun in the oven,' does have an outlook on life that only a teenager could understand, all of which builds most of the story. Ellen's character of Juno uses more slang than most people even know exist and yet she instantly becomes the perfect epitome of a 16-year-old high school girl in today's day and age.

The boy she sleeps with is more of her best friend and her parents are an eclectic combination not without their own relationship problems. In Juno she plays a 16-year-old high school student who accidentally gets knocked up, but not in a Judd Apatow way. If there's any one actor who deserves to be mentioned out of everyone at the Toronto Film Fest, it's her.

Her name: Ellen Page, the 20-year-old acting sensation who scared the living crap out of all men in Hard Candy and later stole the heart of Bobby 'Iceman' Drake in X-Men 3 as Kitty Pryde. At the Toronto Film Festival this year there was one actress in particular who stood out in two of the fest's greatest, and certainly most unique, films: Juno and The Tracey Fragments. After screening 20 movies at a film festival you start to notice patterns: styles, production techniques, story trends, and even actors popping up in multiple movies.

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