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Janet Planet

PG-13 Released Jun 21 1h 50m Drama Fantasy Sci-Fi TRAILER for Janet Planet: Trailer 1 List
85% Tomatometer 126 Reviews 43% Audience Score 50+ Ratings
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. Read More Read Less
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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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Donald Clarke Irish Times Janet Planet plays a little like a memory piece from an unknown future – the assembled past life of an adult who, as a child, grasped only a bare majority of the tensions unfolding about her. A lovely, flawed idyll. Rated: 4/5 Aug 8, 2024 Full Review Adam Nayman The Ringer Easily the greatest movie ever (incidentally) named after an Outkast lyric, Janet Planet marks the directorial debut of the Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Annie Baker, who duly transfers her mastery of understatement from stage to screen. Jul 23, 2024 Full Review Wendy Ide Observer (UK) An exquisite and treasurable account of a complicated mother-daughter bond. Rated: 4/5 Jul 22, 2024 Full Review Alistair Harkness Scotsman ... The film falls victim to the mimetic fallacy as Baker makes us privy to the tedium of Janet and Lacy’s lives without unlocking anything particularly interesting or profound about either of them. Rated: 2/5 Aug 9, 2024 Full Review Victoria Luxford City AM moves casually to a conclusion that most watching will find some truth in. Rated: 3/5 Aug 8, 2024 Full Review Marshall Shaffer Decider Janet Planet doesn’t just tell a story so much as it invites you to enter it. It’s a magic portal back into your own childhood, both to reinhabit the mindset of those days and reflect upon them with some distance. Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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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 Full Review Suzanne Very slow moving and so depressing! Both mother and daughter needed therapy! Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 07/05/24 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Scott P The costume design was fantastic. Acting superb. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/29/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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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
A24, BBC Film, 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, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 30, 2024
Box Office (Gross USA)
$258.0K
Runtime
1h 50m
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