The Planet of Junior Brown

The Planet of Junior Brown
Directed by Clement Virgo
Produced by
  • Eric Jordan
  • Paul Stephens
  • Victor Solnicki
Written by Clement Virgo
Cameron Bailey
Based on The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton
Starring
Release dates
  • 6 September 1997 (1997-09-06) (TIFF)
Running time
 91 minutes
Country Canada
Language English

The Planet of Junior Brown, retitled Junior's Groove in some releases, is a Canadian drama film released in 1997. 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.[1]

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.

The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, 1997, but was distributed primarily as a CBC Television film airing in November of that year.[2] The film aired on Showtime and Fox Family Channel in the United States in 1999,[3] following which Whitfield won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Performance in a Youth/Children's Series or Special in 2000.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The 10th planet: Clement Virgo explores new worlds in The Planet of Junior Brown". The Globe and Mail, August 2, 1997.
  2. ↑ "CBC airs a fairy tale too good to be true". Vancouver Sun, November 29, 1997.
  3. ↑ "Lynn Whitfield's Double Premiere". Washington Post, February 7, 1999.
  4. ↑ "Lynn Whitfield goes to Washington in 'Head of State'". Westside Gazette, April 2, 2003.


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