‘Juno’ Is Biggest “Indie” Hit in Six Years. Sigh …

Currently blessed with a $125 million gross to date, Fox Searchlight’s Juno is the biggest “indie” hit since My Big Fat Greek Wedding in 2002, which for some reason ended up with about $241 million by the time it was done. IMDB.com also notes that it’s the only film this year to remain in the top 10 box office list every weekend since its opening, and that it’s the highest grossing of any of the Oscar nominated films this year. You see Juno, with it’s hamburger phones and recurring Moldy Peaches songs somehow beat a film like No Country For Old Men’s gross by DOUBLE ($61.3 million). Well, I guess you couldn’t bring Grandma to something like NCFOM over the holidays, right? What’s that? Grandma hates obnoxious movie hype and excessively witty scripted dialogue, as well as the definition of “indie” as somehow being inclusive of high profile casting and budgets that most beginning filmmakers couldn’t begin to dream of? Oh, well, then. Sorry about that.

Juno, you were funny and all, but I’m just saying maybe Margot at the Wedding, Two Days In Paris, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Control, and any number of the other films competing at the same level of profile could’ve gotten half the attention you did, no?