But it's not always as easy to pull off as he makes it look. In Thank You For Smoking, his main protagonist was a tobacco spokesman desperate to remain a role model for his son, while in Juno he tackled a 16-year-old teenage girl who decides to give up her baby for adoption, and Up In The Air followed the fortunes of a man who laid people off for a living at the height of the economic downturn.
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A man with the courage to go for the uneasy option
Jason Reitman enjoys directing films that make people feel uncomfortable.
