Janet Planet

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“★★★★! A phenomenal debut by Annie Baker! For a while, it’s easy to dismiss the film as simply a tone-perfect re-creation of that last era of analog youth when adults didn’t feel guilty for ranking their own needs above their bored children. Its soul emerges in the questions Baker waits for us to ask. What turns stubborn girls into pliable women? Was our personality forged in opposition to our parents, or will we repeat their mistakes? – Amy Nicholson, The Washington Post

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. As the months pass, three visitors enter their orbit, all captivated by Janet and her spellbinding nature. In her solitary moments, Lacy inhabits an inner world so extraordinarily detailed that it begins to seep into the outside world. 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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113 min
Rated PG-13
Aspect Ratio - Flat (1.66 : 1)
Distributor - A24
in English

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