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Jun 20, 2024 · A24. The Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Annie Baker’s first film Janet Planet is a delicate memory piece set in early-1990s hippie Massachusetts, following a sensitive, quirky 11-year-old...
Jun 14, 2024 · Justin Chang reviews “Janet Planet,” the playwright Annie Baker’s début film, starring Julianne Nicholson, Zoe Ziegler, Elias Koteas, Will Patton, and Sophie Okonedo.
Jun 25, 2024 · Baker imposes a sense of large scale on intimacies by way of closeups—as in Wayne’s unshaven face and leathery neck, Janet’s smooth and freckled cheek, Lacy’s hand receiving a gift from another...
Jul 3, 2024 · In one of the funniest, most heartwarming scenes in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker’s debut film, Janet Planet, 11-year-old Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) asks her mom Janet (Julianne...
Aug 30, 2023 · It is strange and sad and sweet, as attuned to the perspective of an idiosyncratic 11-year-old girl as it is to the complex dynamics between the adults entering and exiting her orbit over one long,...
Jun 17, 2024 · ‘Infinite Life’ playwright Annie Baker switches mediums with her sneakily expansive debut film, ‘Janet Planet,’ about a possessive mother-daughter relationship.
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Jul 16, 2024 · After all, Janet Planet, the directorial debut from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker, is a mother-daughter drama that orbits around Nicholson’s extraordinary performance as Janet, a depressed woman stuck in a codependent relationship.
