Lester from the “Fargo” series meets Wednesday Addams. Hijinx ensue.
To go a bit more in depth, “Miller’s Girl” is a film set in a small Tennessee community that follows a literature teacher. Jonathan Miller (Martin Freeman), who’s also an author, though he hasn’t written in a few years, is just getting started on a new semester.
One of the first students he meets is Cairo (Jenna Ortega), a high schooler who lives alone as her wealthy parents are abroad. Cairo shows promise and it leads Miller to assign her a special writing project to help her with college admissions. The two end up growing closer, but the situation begins to take a dark turn.
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