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“Can I have a piece of you?” Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) asks her beautiful and generous mother, Janet (Julianne Nicholson). Their relationship, the centre of playwright Annie Baker’s feature debut, Janet Planet, is precious but infected. The film spends its runtime trying to find the roots of this malaise. Wayne (Will Patton), Janet’s current boyfriend, thinks it’s odd that an 11-year-old still curls up in bed with her mother each night, like a pup in a foxhole. So, Janet plucks out a strand of hair and hands it to her daughter to remember her by, now that she has to be confined in her own bedroom.
