Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker’s first film, Janet Planet, is specifically set.
It’s the summer of 1991, in rural Western Massachusetts, where Janet (Julianne Nicholson) and her 11-year-old daughter Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) live among the trees.
Janet Planet is about this mother-daughter relationship, one that sustains while men drift in and out.
But it’s also about silence and idle, and it’s exquisitely timed to the rhythms and feelings of pre-digital adolescence.
So much has happened over the past four decades that “Janet Planet” feels like it is from another world.
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