Janet Planet screens as part of Seattle International Film Festival 2024
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📆 Friday, May 10th
⏰ 6 pm
📍 SIFF Cinema Downtown: 2100 4th Ave, Seattle
📆 Saturday, May 11th
⏰ 4:45 pm
📍 SIFF Cinema Egyptian: 805 E Pine St, Seattle
Some people have a personality and energy so strong it feels gravitational. In Janet Planet, the titular Janet (an acupuncturist hippie living in western Massachusetts played by Julianne Nicholson), with her freckles and pensive green eyes, draws three people into her orbit during the summer of 1991. Boyfriend Wayne (Will Patton), her old friend Regina (Sophie Okonedo), and theater troupe leader Avi (Elias Koteas) all enter her life for a brief time before spinning back into the black unknown of space. As Janet contends with these relationships, she’s also dealing with her imaginative 11-year-old daughter Lacy (Zoe Ziegler), who is about to enter the 6th grade yet remains as clingy as ever. The directorial debut of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker, Janet Planet is a quiet and dreamy character study of a woman and her daughter as their relationship to one another shifts and changes with time.
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