Star Powerhouse

  What happens when admiration turns into obsession and mentorship crosses a dangerous line?  Miller’s Girl follows the unsettling dynamic between Cairo Sweet ( Jenna Ortega ), a gifted teenage writer, and her English teacher, Jonathan Miller ( Martin Freeman ). With her parents often away traveling the world, 18-year-old Cairo is left to her devices living in a big mansion with only literature to keep her company. Cairo ends up taking Miller’s creative writing class, and the two have an instant intellectual connection. She begins to blossom creatively under his mentorship, and he finds joy in spending time with her, rather than his emotionally unavailable wife, Beatrice. But almost too quickly, the line between inspiration and intimacy begins to blur between teacher and student, and with it comes devastating consequences. What begins as a story about talent and mentorship slowly spirals into an emotional tug-of-war filled with manipulation, desire, blurred boundaries, and th...