Director: Jade Halley Bartlett
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 93
minutes
Year:
2024
Starring: Martin Freeman, Jenna Ortega, Bashir Sallahudin, Gideon Adlon, Dagmara
Dominczyk, Christine Adams
Description: A creative
writing assignment yields complex results between a teacher (Martin Freeman)
and his talented student (Jenny Ortega).
Review: Jonathan Miller is a writer whose debut novel wasn’t a huge success and
now hides out as a creative writing teacher at a Tennessee high school. His
marriage to a successful writer is odd to say the least.
Meanwhile, his student,
18-year-old Cairo Sweet, manages to peak Miller’s interest with her writing talent.
You know, from their first meeting, that things won’t end well.
In her feature debut,
director Jade Halley Bartlett opts for easy-going effects, barely fleshed-out
characters and an ending lacking inspiration. This film was very boring, too cliché
and a waste of great talent. Jenna Ortega is such a talented actress, but she
never really convinces as the young temptress she becomes. And Martin Freeman
really feels out of place in his role. Miller wife, portrayed by Dagmara Dominczyk, delivers a terrible
performance. She is such a caricature, she doesn’t feel like an actual person.
I paid to see this film, don’t make the same mistake.
This is a boring, uninspiring, cliché film and I would not recommend.
Rating: 2/ 5
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