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The Planet of Junior Brown (1997)
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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... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Will an overweight teen piano prodigy ever reach his full potential? moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Lynn Whitfield | ... | Mrs. Brown | |
| Martin Villafana | ... | Junior Brown | |
| Rainbow Francks | ... | Buddy Clark (as Rainbow Sun Francks) | |
| Clark Johnson | ... | Mr. Pool | |
| Sarah Polley | ... | Butter | |
| Richard Chevolleau | ... | Duckie | |
| Margot Kidder | ... | Miss Peebs | |
| Nicole Hardy | ... | Lesley | |
| Warren Benns | ... | Spanish | |
| Tina Su | ... | Sandra Tanaka | |
| Christopher Kennedy | ... | Derrick | |
| Dennis Akayama | ... | Mr. Tanaka (as Denis Akiyama) | |
| Dan Lett | ... | Mr. Roundtree | |
| Roy T. Anderson | ... | Taxi driver | |
| John Vasilantonakis | ... | Peel's Neighbor |
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Flipping through the cable channels, I came across the rotund visage of one Martin Villafana, dancing around a room in a stilted pirouette and not unlike rubbernecking at a traffic accident, I was compelled to watch. I later watched the film, The Planet of Junior Brown, in its entirety and I wished the rest of the film weren't so beholden in tone and mood to that initial scene I was exposed to. While I admittedly still look forward to read the novel on which this film is based, I have many problems with the piece of celluloid I have before me. Instead of grounding its many dreamlike moments with instances which harken to reality, we're given a film which feels like something remembered, forgotten, or indexed from someone's fevered yet bittersweet memories. Although I empathize with Junior's plight since I am a person with a weight problem, I really think some of the choices the director and scenarist made about this piano virtuoso ultimately betrayed what they were going for. What's left is a promising yet still empty afterschool special.