“Janet Planet” is a quiet movie. But every once in a while, a shock punctures the silence.
Take the film’s beginning: a young girl sneaks out of her room in the dead of night, moving swiftly across a dark field. She makes her way to a barn and finds a phone. “Hi,” she says to whoever’s on the other end. “I’m gonna kill myself.”
This is how we meet 11-year-old Lacy (Zoe Ziegler). The year is 1991, and she’s wasting away at summer camp. She has a hard time making friends, and this dramatic proclamation is how she convinces her mother Janet (Julianne Nicholson) to come and pick her up. When Janet arrives, she appears like a beacon in the grass, an angelic apparition come to save Lacy from this summer of hell. But Janet isn’t alone. Her boyfriend Wayne (Will Patton) is there, too.
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