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Jun 23, 2024 · Janet Planet establishes the kind of realistic closeness between women and girls that has been mostly relegated to television in recent years. It feels like we spend a whole season with this little family and yet it still doesn’t seem like nearly enough time.
Jun 20, 2024 · The genius of “Janet Planet,” Baker’s debut as a feature writer-director, is how flawlessly it renders what it’s like to spend the summer being 11 at your home in the woods, when your ...
- Annie Baker
Jun 25, 2024 · June 25, 2024 8 AM PT. “Janet Planet,” the stunning debut film by Annie Baker, one of the most marvelously inventive playwrights of her generation, might strike some as exceptionally...
- Charles Mcnulty
- Theater Critic
- charles.mcnulty@latimes.com
Jun 21, 2024 · 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.
Jun 20, 2024 · Janet Planet unfolds at a dreamy murmur, using soft strokes to paint a picture of a liminal time in childhood —the period of dawning awareness of a parent’s individual humanity.
Jun 25, 2024 · ‘Janet Planet’ Is the Last Word on Complicated Mother-Daughter Dynamics. Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker's debut film is a perfect, rough gem of a story about an 11-year-old kid seeing...
Jun 28, 2024 · In JANET PLANET, Julianne Nicholson plays Janet, the warming, single mother “sun” around which her daughter, 11-year-old Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) orbits like a planet. Adults are also drawn in by Janet, and circle around her, hoping to become permanent additions to her solar system.
