Janet Planet (2024)
Director: Annie Baker Run Time: 110 min. Rating: PG-13 Release Year: 2024
Starring: Elias Koteas, Julianne Nicholson, Sophie Okonedo, Will Patton, Zoe Ziegler
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Language: English
About the film:
World Premiere, 2024 Berlin International Film Festival.
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.
“The kind of luminous portrait of a summer where nothing happens and yet everything happens.”
—Alissa Wilkinson, Vox
About the filmmaker:
Annie Vox is an American Playwright and filmmaker who best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Flick (2013). Her plays are praised for being expertly written to convey complex human emotion, bringing erratic human emotion to life on the stage. Vox also wrote the plays The Antipodes (2017), Body Awareness (2008), and an adaptation of Uncle Vanya (2012). For the screen, Vox wrote an episode of I Love Dick (2017) and her directorial debut Janet Planet (2024).
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