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Miller’s Girl movie storyline. 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 “the 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 gym teacher, Boris Fillmore, who is Miller’s best friend. Seeing the intellectual connection between Cairo and Miller, Winnie suggests Cairo seduce Miller.
Cairo and Miller begin to spend more time together outside class, sharing common interests in novels, poems and Tennesseean 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, Cairo welcomes him in a sexy dress and kisses him 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 gets aroused and masturbates to it.
Miller declares the story unacceptable and demands that Cairo rewrite it, but she calls out his cowardice and hypocrisy. Offended by Miller’s rejection, Cairo sends the story to the school’s vice principal, Joyce Manor, as revenge to expose a possible affair between them. She also takes advantage of Winnie’s attraction to her by convincing her to send sexual photos of themselves to Fillmore, leading them to undress and kiss passionately.
Miller’s Girl is a 2024 American erotic thriller film written and directed by Jade Halley Bartlett. The film stars Jenna Ortega and Martin Freeman as a student and teacher who enter into a complicated relationship after a creative writing assignment. Miller’s Girl premiered at Palm Springs Film Festival on January 11, 2024, followed by a release in theaters by Lionsgate on January 26, 2024. It was released on digital formats in the United States on February 16, 2024, followed by a release in the United Kingdom on February 19, 2024.
Miller’s Girl (2024)
Directed by: Jade Halley Bartlett
Starring: Martin Freeman, Jenna Ortega, Gideon Adlon, Bashir Salahuddin, Dagmara Domińczyk, Christine Adams, André Wilkerson, Ray Fawley, Trace Haynes
Screenplay by: Jade Halley Bartlett
Production Design by: Cheyenne Ford
Cinematography by: Daniel Brothers
Film Editing by: Vanara Taing
Costume Design by: Lauren Bott
Set Decoration by: Katie Laxton
Art Direction by: Nate Dahlkemper
Music by: Elyssa Samsel
MPAA Rating: R for sexual content, language throughout, some teen smoking and drinking.
Distributed by: Lionsgate Films
Release Date: January 11, 2024 (Palm Springs Film Festival), January 26, 2024 (United States
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