Miller’s Girl | 2024 | R | – 7.2.9

Why is “Miller’s Girl” rated R? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “sexual content, language throughout, some teen smoking and drinking.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a teen girl kissing her older male teacher, a woman trying to seduce her husband and then another man, a masturbation scene, several scenes of teen girls posing provocatively, kissing passionately and photographing themselves, many scenes with discussions of sex between students and teachers, discussions of sexuality, many arguments, and over 40 F-words and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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A middle-aged teacher (Martin Freeman) becomes inappropriately intimate with a talented teenage student (Jenna Ortega), after she’s given a creative writing assignment. Also with Bashir Salahuddin, Gideon Adlon, Dagmara Dominczyk and Christine Adams. Directed by Jade Halley Bartlett. [Running Time: 1:33]

Miller’s Girl SEX/NUDITY 7

 – A teacher reads an erotic story about an older man and a teen girl and masturbates; we see him sitting in an office chair with his back to the camera, with his arm and shoulder moving rhythmically for several seconds, and then he moans and his head falls back onto the back of the chair to end the scene. After seeing each other at a poetry reading, a teacher accidentally picks up a teen girl’s cell phone and she later asks him to return it in person; she meets him at her home wearing a clingy dress with thin straps and she kisses him at the door briefly (we see this in flashback later).
► A teen girl manipulates another teen girl into taking explicit photos to send to a male teacher and one girl removes her outer clothing (she wears a bra and underwear) to reveal cleavage, bare abdomen, and bare legs to the upper thighs; the other girl removes her top (we see her bra strap) as they press closely together and the first girl takes a selfie of them kissing deeply and passionately, and then pushes the other girl away, telling her to text the photo to a high school coach who receives the photo (we do not see it) and erases it. Two teen girls sit on a bed with their legs entwined; one girl wears only underwear and a shirt and the other girl is clothed and they rub noses and kiss briefly.
► A woman wears only a bra under several thin but opaque robes of varying lengths in several scenes (we see cleavage and her bare abdomen); she sits in her husband’s lap, reaches below the frame to rub his genitals and they kiss and moan for several seconds until someone else walks into the room; they stop and the husband leaves the room while the woman rubs against the other man as they sit on the couch, and the second man immediately leaves. A clothed teen girl enters an empty classroom, moans, grabs her breasts, climbs onto the teacher’s desk on all fours, moans again, and flips her hair around in circles.
► A woman says a romantic novel got sticky when she read it (masturbation implied). In a fantasy, a teen girl imagines a man pushing her down onto a bed and asking her to read a book aloud. An 18 year-old girl plans to seduce a 49-year-old male teacher at the suggestion of another teen girl who says she intends to seduce another male teacher. A teen girl tells a man she dressed up for him and he ignores her. A man laughs and asks a male friend if the friend’s wife wants “all this” (the first man’s body). A woman asks a man to buy her tampons. A teen girl says that she is lesbian and asks a female friend to lay on her (she does not). We hear that the works of Henry Miller are banned from a Southern school system because they are sexually explicit. When a man’s wife learns of a planned seduction by a teen girl, a loud argument with her husband ensues (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details).
► A few teen girls wear shorts and miniskirts that end at the upper thighs. Two teen girls in brief scenes wear low-cut tops that reveal cleavage.

Miller’s Girl VIOLENCE/GORE 2

 – A teacher tells a teen student that her erotic story (please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details) is unacceptable and she becomes angry, verbally attacking him; she suggests he is hypocritical and scared; the teen sends the story to the school’s female vice principal, the vice principal questions the teacher and the teen separately about a romantic and sexual relationship; they both deny the suggestion and the teacher is suspended from the school.
► A man and his wife argue intensely for several seconds twice, the man shouts angrily, and the second time he pushes her away. A man upbraids another man about sexual impropriety accusations. Two teen girls argue twice. A teen girl refuses to drop sexual assault charges against a teacher and calls his suspension “her greatest achievement.” A man and a teen girl argue briefly twice. A woman says that she wants to see many people’s heads impaled on Mount Blanc pens. A teen girl blows a raspberry at another teen girl.

Miller’s Girl LANGUAGE 9

 – About 45 F-words and its derivatives, 26 sexual references, 6 scatological terms, 9 anatomical terms, 6 mild obscenities, name-calling (liar, alcoholic, child, vile, impotent, mediocre, jock-twat, backwater shanty, snob, Puritan, sadist, pretender), exclamations (shut-up, wow, shoot, what the …), 6 religious profanities (GD), 6 religious exclamations (e.g. God, oh God, my God, Christ, Jesus). | profanity glossary |

Miller’s Girl SUBSTANCE USE

 – A teen girl sucks on a lollipop and slurs her words and it is not made clear whether the lollipop is drugged. A man pours two glasses of wine and he and a woman sip them, a woman pours wine or whiskey for herself and drinks it in several scenes, two teen girls take turns chugging from a large bottle of wine, a teen girl is a waitress in a bar and it is unclear whether she is old enough to work there, a bar scene shows empty beer bottles on some tables and a man sipping from a beer bottle and a woman sipping from a glass of whiskey, a woman drinks several glasses of whiskey and wine at home and slurs her words and a man tells her that she is an alcoholic, and a man says that he was drunk once in the past. A man, and a woman, and two teen girls light and smoke cigarettes in houses and outdoors in different scenes, a man and a teen girl share a cigarette in a few scenes, and we see an ashtray full of cigarette butts in two scenes.

Miller’s Girl DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Sexual impropriety between high school teachers and students, sexual attraction, lack of consequences, class distinctions, successful women, emotionally unavailable people, writing as a career, innocence, longing, seduction, power, manipulation, anger, embarrassment, revenge, starting over.

Miller’s Girl MESSAGE

 – Romantic and sexual relationships between teachers and high school students are dangerous.