Janet Planet

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Janet Planet

PG-13

Released 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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Ty Burr

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A tender yet subversive memory play set in western Massachusetts during the summer of 1991, about a dour little girl.

Rated: 3.5/5

Nov 1, 2024

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Christina Newland

iNews.co.uk

[Annie Baker] is an expert in transmitting lots of emotion with very little action, and Janet Planet is no different, using micro-gestures and passing expressions to tell her story.

Rated: 4/5

Sep 17, 2024

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

AWFJ.org

Nostalgic but never naff, Janet Planet fills the screen with warmth and compassion for its charming, flawed and very human characters.

Aug 26, 2024

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Dustin Chang

Floating World

Baker gets the haziness and dream-like pre-adolescence right. With a blink of an eye, it will be gone. But for this brief time, mom and daughter relationship is precious, like a planet and its moon.

Oct 10, 2024

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A.S. Hamrah

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In addition to making the best use of a New England setting since Michael Roemer’s Vengeance Is Mine in 1984, Janet Planet is also the best evocation of the early 1990s since Kalman and Horn’s 2014 movie L for Leisure, another lost classic.

Sep 16, 2024

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Christie Cronan

Common Sense Media

Great acting is overshadowed by a tediously slow, thin story in this reflective drama that's not for the impatient.

Sep 3, 2024

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Samantha

this movie is a little slow paced but wonderful none the less.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

09/24/24

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Dorothy Y

It was a very beautiful movie with great natural sound, and talented child actress, and adult actress's and actors and subtle comedy.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

07/07/24

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Suzanne

Very slow moving and so depressing! Both mother and daughter needed therapy!

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

07/05/24

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Scott

Truly one of the most boring and pointless movies I've ever seen. It went nowhere and had no discernable point.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

07/04/24

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Kelvin G

A movie where nothing happens. I honestly don't get what the point of the movie was. The acting was fine but that was about it.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

07/03/24

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Roy J

I'm not familiar with Annie Baker, the playwright, but I'm definitely a fan of the filmmakers after watching her exceptional debut. Love the ending.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/02/24

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Zoe Ziegler

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Will Patton

Wayne

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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, BBC Film, A24
Rating: PG-13 (Thematic Elements|Some Drug Use|Brief Strong Language)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 21, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 30, 2024
Box Office (Gross USA): $258.0K
Runtime: 1h 50m

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