JANET PLANET
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.
SHOWTIMES
JUL 19 | FRI
4:40, 7:00, 9:20 p.m.
JUL 20 | SAT
12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 p.m.
JUL 21 | SUN
12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00 p.m.
JUL 22 | MON
4:40, 7:00 p.m.
JUL 23 | TUE
4:40, 7:00 p.m.
JUL 24 | WED
4:40 p.m.
JUL 25 | THU
4:40, 7:00 p.m.
JUL 26 | FRI
4:40, 7:00, 9:20 p.m.
JUL 27 | SAT
2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 p.m.
JUL 28 | SUN
2:20, 4:40, 7:00 p.m.
JUL 29 | MON
4:40, 7:00 p.m.
JUL 30 | TUE
4:40, 7:00 p.m.
JUL 31 | WED
4:40 p.m.
AUG 1 | THU
4:40, 7:00 p.m.
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. 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.
Director
WITH
Julianne Nicholson, Zoe Ziegler, Elias Koteas, Will Patton, Sophie Okonedo
Run Time
Released
Distributed by
HEARING AND VISUAL ASSISTANCE
Descriptive Audio
Closed Captioning
Country
SUBTITLES
None
RATED PG-13
for brief strong language, thematic elements, some drug use
REVIEWS
“When was the last time someone who has mastered the stage –Anne Baker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright – crafted a directorial feature debut of such artistic confidence?”
“Watching it feels eerily akin to running one’s fingers along a scar sustained in childhood and being magically projected back to the moment that injury was sustained.”
“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.”
“The kind of luminous portrait of a summer where nothing happens and yet everything happens.”