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Miller's Girl
A talented young writer embarks on a creative odyssey when her teacher assigns a project that entangles them both.
2024 · Directed by Jade Halley Bartlett · 93 min · Thriller · Drama · Romance · Screenplay in the scene database · 18 frames
Tagline
Write what you want.
Plot
Cairo Sweet, an 18-year-old girl, lives alone in her wealthy family's mansion in Tennessee. Her attorney parents are away on a business trip while she completes her senior year in high school. Cairo takes the creative writing class of teacher Jonathan Miller, and impresses him with her wide knowledge in literature and her familiarity with Miller's own book, Apostrophes and Ampersands. Miller has not written since he got married and started teaching. His emotionally unavailable wife, Beatrice, is a more successful author who disdains her husband's lack of ambition and failure to write new material.
Cairo has to write a college admission essay for Yale University, with the subject being her "greatest achievement to date", but she cannot find anything worthy to write about. Winnie, Cairo's best friend, tells her to experience the excitement of a teacher–student affair such as she intends to do with the school's baseball coach and physics teacher, Boris Fillmore, who is Miller's best friend. Winnie suggests that Cairo seduce Miller after noticing their intellectual connection and Miller's obvious attraction to her.
Cairo and Miller begin to spend more time together outside class, sharing common interests in novels, poems and Tennessean culture. Miller assigns Cairo to write a short story in the style of her favorite author, and she chooses Henry Miller; despite being reluctant due to the author's provocative style, Miller approves. When he accidentally takes Cairo's cell phone, she asks him to return it personally. Miller arrives at her parents' mansion, where Cairo welcomes him in a sexy dress, and they kiss in the rain. Inspired, she writes an erotic short story about a sexual relationship between a teacher and his student. While Miller reads it alone, he becomes extremely aroused and masturbates to it.
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Crew
- Written by: Jade Halley Bartlett
- Cinematography: Daniel Brothers
- Edited by: Vanara Taing
- Music: Elyssa Samsel
- Production design: Cheyenne Ford
- Produced by: Mary-Margaret Kunze, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Josh Fagen
Cast
- Jenna Ortega as Cairo Sweet
- Martin Freeman as Jonathan Miller
- Bashir Salahuddin as Boris Fillmore
- Gideon Adlon as Winnie Black
- Dagmara Dominczyk as Beatrice June Harker
- Christine Adams as Joyce Manner
- Augustine Hargrave as Elliot
- Elyssa Samsel as Suzette
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Point Grey Pictures, Lionsgate, Good Universe
- Budget: $4,000,000
- Box office: $1,430,985
- Themes: husband wife relationship, school, writer, teacher student relationship, teachers and students, disturbed, pathetic, provocative, absurd, pretentious
On this film
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