In her sublime debut film, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker dreamily teleports back to 1991, where droll, 11-year-old Lacy is spending the summer in rural Massachusetts with her magnetic and spellbinding mother, Janet (a brilliant Julianne Nicholson, finally getting the screen time she deserves). As the warm months pass, three visitors—all equally captivated by Janet—enter the duo’s orbit, evolving and impacting Lacy’s perception and understanding of her mother. As she did with her 2013 play The Flick, Baker again expertly captures the passage of time, offering an unhurried, confident, and tragicomic observation on change. Heralded by Little White Lies as “not just one of the great films of its year, but one of the finest first films in the annals of the medium,” JANET PLANET premiered to universal acclaim at both the Telluride Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival.