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Janet Planet is a coming-of-age drama film that was released theatrically on June 21, 2024. The playwright Annie Baker marks her feature directorial debut with this movie, which she also wrote. The screenplay is loosely based on Baker's childhood experience growing up in rural Massachusetts.
Janet Planet is produced by Dan Janvey, Derrick Tseng, Andrew Goldman, along with Baker. Moreover, Chelsea Barnard, Rose Garnett, and Eva Yates serve as the film's executive producers. It premiered at the 50th Telluride Film Festival on September 1, 2023.
The cast of the film includes Julianne Nicholson, Zoe Ziegler, Elias Koteas, Will Patton, Sophie Okonedo, and more. The official synopsis of Janet Planet, as per Rotten Tomatoes, reads:
"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. 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."
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Julianne Nicholson leads the cast of Janet Planet
1) Julianne Nicholson as Janet
Julianne Nicholson plays a single mother and acupuncturist called Janet, who lives with her 11-year-old daughter Lacy in rural Massachusetts. The film follows the adventures of the mother-daughter duo during a memorable summer in 1991.
Julianne's first prominent film role was playing Jennifer McNeely in the 1999 romantic comedy, The Love Letter. Her other notable film roles include playing Ella Smalley in Tully, Alice in Seeing Other People, and Ivy Weston in John Wells' black comedy, August: Osage County.
She also appeared in the Oscar-nominated film I, Tonya, and played Marilyn Monroe's mentally unstable mother Gladys Pearl Baker in the biographical film, Blonde.
Moreover, her television credits include The Others, Ally McBeal, Boardwalk Empire, Masters of S*x, and the drama series Eyewitness, among others. In 2021, Julianne won the Primetime Emmy Award for 'Outstanding Supporting Actress' for playing Lori Ross in the Kate Winslet-led crime drama series, Mare of Easttown.
2) Zoe Ziegler as Lacy
Zoe Ziegler stars as Janet's 11-year-old daughter, Lacy, in the film. Over the course of Janet Planet, Lacy gains a new understanding of her mother by watching her in relation to Wayne, Sophie, and Avi. Janet Planet is Zoe's first film appearance, she also starred in a short film Howl.
3) Elias Koteas as Avi
Elias Koteas plays Avi, the charismatic leader of a local theater group attended by Janet. His hippie lifestyle attracts the attention of Janet and the two go on a date at the end of the film.
In one of his earlier film roles, Koteas played Duncan in the John Hughes teen drama, Some Kind of Wonderful. He went on to act in the dystopian thriller Gattaca, historical drama Ararat, Steve Barron's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and the 2007 thriller Zodiac, among others.
Furthermore, he appeared in David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Martin Scorsese's psychological drama, Shutter Island.
On television, he has played Alvin 'Al' Olinsky in NBC's Chicago P.D., Tom True in the legal drama Goliath, Colonel Xavier Marks in ABC's Combat Hospital, and James Skinner in AMC's The Killing. He has also had small roles in popular shows like The Sopranos, House, and CSI: NY.
4) Sophie Okonedo as Regina
Sophie Okonedo plays the free-spirited Regina, a member of Avi's theater commune. She was once friends with Janet and the two rekindle her friendship after meeting at the theater group. Regina moves in with Janet and Lacy temporarily but leaves after their different lifestyles lead to conflict.
Sophie rose to prominence playing Tatiana Rusesabagina in the film Hotel Rwanda, for which she received the Oscar nomination for 'Best Supporting Actress' in 2005. Her other film credits include Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Martian Child, Death on the Nile, Æon Flux, Heart of Stone, and Tom Harper's musical drama, Wild Rose.
Moreover, she received a Golden Globe Award nomination for playing Susie Carter in the miniseries Tsunami: The Aftermath, which is based on the devastating Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami of 2004. Also, her guest role as Charlotte Wells in the thriller series, Ratched, earned her the Primetime Emmy Award nomination for 'Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series' in 2021.
Sofie has also been praised for her performances in the Channel 4 series Chimerica, the comedy-drama Flack, and the spy thriller Slow Horses.
Other supporting cast members of Janet Planet include:
- Will Patton as Wayne
- Mary Shultz as Davina
- Edie Moon Kearns as Sequoia
- June Walker Grossman as Susanna
- Abby Harri as Emily
- Luke Philip Bosco as Male Counselor
- Mary Beth Brooker as Bonnie
- George Marshall as Contra Dance Caller
- Laura Litterer
- Jeremy Louise Eaton
- Raky Sastri
- John Peitso
- Carolyn Walker
- Matthew Glassman
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