Janet Planet

PG-13

In Theaters Fri Jun 21

1h 50m

Drama

Fantasy

Sci-Fi

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In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker captures a child's experience of time passing, and the ineffability of a daughter falling out of love with her mother, in this singularly sublime film debut.

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Unfolding at a gentle pace with an even more subdued sense of drama, Janet Planet revolves around Julianne Nicholson and Zoe Ziegler's outstanding performances.

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Annie Baker

Director

Julianne Nicholson

Janet

Zoe Ziegler

Lacy

Elias Koteas

Avi

Will Patton

Wayne

Sophie Okonedo

Regina

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Justin Chang

New Yorker

Julianne Nicholson and Zoe Ziegler play a mother and her eleven-year-old daughter in a story that quietly sidesteps coming-of-age drama conventions.

Jun 15, 2024

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Tim Robey

Daily Telegraph (UK)

Baker’s tingling delicacy of touch makes it a subtly distinctive experience: it’s a film I already looked forward to revisiting while tiptoeing through it the first time.

Rated: 5/5

Feb 28, 2024

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Charles Bramesco

Little White Lies

This is not just one of the great films of its year, but one of the finest first films in the annals of the medium.

Oct 10, 2023

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Laura Clifford

Reeling Reviews

Writer/director Annie Baker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, makes her feature filmmaking debut from the unique perspective of a lonely little girl jostling for her mother’s attention when that mother attracts lovers like bees to honey

Rated: B+

Jun 17, 2024

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Matt Oakes

Silver Screen Riot

Ultimately too impressionistic, rambling, and unfocused to leave much of an impression.

Rated: C

May 11, 2024

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Stephen Dalton

The Film Verdict

Pulitzer-winning stage dramatist Annie Baker paints childhood as a midsummer daydream full of tragicomic adult behaviour in her droll, charming film debut.

Mar 10, 2024

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Synopsis

In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker captures a child's experience of time passing, and the ineffability of a daughter falling out of love with her mother, in this singularly sublime film debut.

Director: Annie Baker
Producer: Dan Janvey, Derrick Tseng, Annie Baker, Andrew Goldman
Screenwriter: Annie Baker
Distributor: A24
Production Co: Present Company
Rating: PG-13 (Brief Strong Language|Thematic Elements|Some Drug Use)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 21, 2024, Wide
Runtime: 1h 50m