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The Planet of Junior Brown

38/100
9 Ratings

1997

Drama

1h 31m

18+ (R)

This is the story of an extremely obese, rather immature, yet very bright and talented young man, and of his world and the people in it... mostly homeless young adults... who refer to their lives and where they live as their individual "planets," and everyone else as "refugees." But there are problems in his world, where a talent for the piano has been reduced to playing Chopin on a piano that has had the strings cut by his mother out of frustration at his incessant practicing... the same mother who now requires him to be there to administer her insulin shots. Still, because he is a 'good boy', he plays on the soundless piano, and takes weekly lessons from a piano teacher so eccentric that she will only allow him to strum out the notes on her dining room table... until, like real planets when other bodies get too close, he finds himself pulled and moved in a different direction.

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This is the story of an extremely obese, rather immature, yet very bright and talented young man, and of his world and the people in it... mostly homeless young adults... who refer to their lives and where they live as their individual "planets," and everyone else as "refugees." But there are problems in his world, where a talent for the piano has been reduced to playing Chopin on a piano that has had the strings cut by his mother out of frustration at his incessant practicing... the same mother who now requires him to be there to administer her insulin shots. Still, because he is a 'good boy', he plays on the soundless piano, and takes weekly lessons from a piano teacher so eccentric that she will only allow him to strum out the notes on her dining room table... until, like real planets when other bodies get too close, he finds himself pulled and moved in a different direction. The Planet of Junior Brown featuring Lynn Whitfield and Martin Villafana is streaming with subscription on Hoopla, free on Tubi, and available for rent or purchase on Prime Video. It's a drama movie.

Drama

1997

18+ (R)

1h31m

CA

Director

Clément Virgo

Mrs. Brown

Lynn Whitfield

Junior Brown

Martin Villafana

Buddy Clark (as Rainbow Sun Francks)

Rainbow Sun Francks

Miss Peebs

Margot Kidder

Sandra Tanaka

Tina Su

Mr. Tanaka

Denis Akiyama

Mr. Roundtree

Dan Lett

Taxi driver

Roy T. Anderson

Producer

Eric Jordan

Executive Producer

Victor Solnicki

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9 Ratings
#186071of all Movies

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Director / Writer