Vanessa Nix Anthony

The cast was awesome. Script was meh. This ground was covered more artistically with Jeremy's Irons and Dominic Swain's 1997 turn in Lolita (posing loads of uncomfortable questions for the audience) and much more excitingly in Tom Skerrit and Drew Barrymore's Poison Ivy. The fake controversy the studio whipped up to get people to go see Miller's Girl is absolutely ridiculous. With Ortega's "intimacy coordinator," Kristina Arjona going on record to say Jenna was involved in decisions about the so-called "racy moments," ensuring “it was consistent with what she was comfortable with.” The "racy" scene(s) amount to Ortega's character's teen fantasy (and the story she writes) about her and her teacher being more than student and mentor, but the scene itself is fully clothed (both actors) and as spicy as it gets is Ms. Ortega bent over a bed (wearing a satin dress) and her teacher behind her (in a shirt and slacks) as he orders her to read to him (no unzipped slacks, no lifted dress, no feigned insertion or moans) all we see his hand on top of hers. There's an insinuation that something could happen (besides reading) in this fantasy/story but everything is implied and NOT directly applied to the scene we see and the characters themselves are NOT actually doing this. It's all happening in Ortega's mind. I TRULY do NOT understand the controversy surrounding this young actress and her scene partner at all. This is a grown woman, an actress, whose job it is to portray a character in a movie — and she did an excellent job with what she was given. Did everyone forget that this is the same girl who was part of the cast in a much racier movie called "X" when she was just 18 years old. She may be an underage Wednesday on Netflix but in real life, she is a formidable young actress who appears to know her mind and the boundaries she is comfortable with. The biggest problem with this movie is that the script is a stinker, leaving loose ends all over the place and boring us to death on the way to a lackluster ending.