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The film stars Martin Villafana as the titular Junior Brown, an overweight and schizophrenic child prodigy studying piano from music teacher Miss Peebs ( Margot Kidder ). The film's cast also includes Rainbow Sun Francks, Clark Johnson, Lynn Whitfield, Sarah Polley, Richard Chevolleau, Denis Akiyama and Dan Lett .
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- 6 September 1997 (TIFF)
- The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton
12 nov 1997 · The Planet of Junior Brown: Directed by Clement Virgo. With Lynn Whitfield, Martin Villafana, Rainbow Sun Francks, Clark Johnson. 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 ...
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- Drama
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- 1997-11-12
Obese teen misfit Junior Brown (Martin Villafana) is a whiz on the piano but is blocked from following his musical aspirations by his controlling mother, Mrs. Brown (Lynn Whitfield), and his...
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The Planet of Junior Brown, retitled Junior's Groove in some releases, is a 1997 Canadian drama film. Directed by Clement Virgo, the film was written by Virgo and Cameron Bailey as an adaptation of Virginia Hamilton 's 1971 novel The Planet of Junior Brown.
Other articles where The Planet of Junior Brown is discussed: Sarah Polley: …Hanging Garden (1997), Clement Virgo’s The Planet of Junior Brown (1997), Don McKellar’s Last Night (1998), and David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ (1999). She seemed poised for stardom in the United States after her work in Doug Liman’s Go (1999) and Audrey Wells’s Guinevere (1999) earned her rave
Along with his friends Buddy and Butter and the school janitor, Mr. Pool, Junior is building a model of the solar system. Buddy and Junior escape into a fantasy world with their solar system of ten planets; the tenth being "The Planet of Junior Brown," where Junior hears the music he dreams of playing.
6 set 1997 · Watch Now. The Planet of Junior Brown (1997) 09/06/1997 (US) Drama 1h 31m. User. Score. Play Trailer. Passion Moves Mountains. Overview. Powerful story about love, struggle and passion of an over protective mother and her piano prodigy. Clement Virgo. Director, Screenplay. Virginia Hamilton. Novel. Cameron Bailey. Screenplay.
