Jenna Ortega is hot for a teacher—and the teacher is former hobbit Martin Freeman. Miller’s Girl vibes like a kind of overcooked Southern Gothic literary adaptation, but it’s a black comedy from first time writer and director Jade Halley Bartlett and produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem). Intrigued? Let’s unpack this further…
How to watch Miller’s Girl in Australia
Miller’s Girl slinks into Australian cinemas on March 22.
Miller's Girl
What is Miller’s Girl about?
In sultry rural Tennessee, frustrated writer and English teacher Jonathan Miller is going through the motions until local mysterious rich kid Cairo Sweet hits upon the idea of spicing up her university entrance essay by writing about a student-teacher affair, with our man Miller firmly in her sights. She lives alone in a gothic mansion, he has a hectoring, alcoholic wife. Will they? Won’t they? Well, it’d be a boring movie if they didn’t…
The cast of Miller’s Girl
Martin Freeman is Jonathan Miller, Jenna Ortega is the wonderfully named Cairo Sweet, Gideon Adlon is her best friend Winnie, Dagmara Domińczyk is his wife Beatrice, with Bashir Salahuddin and Joyce Manor rounding out the main cast.
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Why we’re excited about Miller’s Girl
Well, let’s be real: the critics have not been kind, slamming the film for its overcooked tone, literary pretentions (Henry Miller gets namechecked a lot) and unserious approach to a serious subject, but there’s a chance they’re missing the point. And even if Miller’s Girl is an unintentional work of self-parody, that can be a lot of fun—consider Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway in Serenity. Or Ben Affleck, Ana de Armas, and Jacob Elordi in Deep Water. If Miller’s Girl is in on the joke, it could be a blast. If it’s not, it could still be a blast.
