When a childless couple—an ex-con and an ex-cop—take one of a wealthy family’s quintuplets to raise as their own, their lives grow more complicated than anticipated.

*Join us on Saturday, November 7th for a post-screening discussion with Michael Miller.

Michael R. Miller has built a distinguished career in film editing spanning independent cinema, studio productions, and award-winning festival films. After graduating from Cornell University, he began his career as assistant to editor Susan E. Morse and later worked with Thelma Schoonmaker on Raging Bull directed by Martin Scorsese.

Miller later became a sound editor on Blood Simple by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, before continuing his collaboration with the Coen brothers as editor of Raising Arizona and Miller’s Crossing.

His extensive editing credits also include Ghost World, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, Boys on the Side, Swing Kids, Strangers with Candy starring Stephen Colbert and Amy Sedaris, Armageddon, Stigmata, Soul Plane, and Slipstream directed by Anthony Hopkins.

Among his acclaimed independent film work are happythankyoumoreplease, winner of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, Liberal Arts, and Infinitely Polar Bear. In total, Miller has edited eight official Sundance selections. He also edited Abundant Acreage Available, which won Best Original Screenplay at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival.

Miller currently serves as Professor of Filmmaking at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where he previously chaired the Editing Department for eight years.

Moderator: Tim Grant is a Charlotte-based director and producer. His filmmaking explores economic, religious and cultural tensions of the American South. As a director, Tim’s award-winning feature documentary, Mississippi River Styx, Executive Produced by Danny McBride, David Gordon Green and Jody Hill, premiered at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival and was released by Documentary Plus in September 2025. His most recent film as a producer is The Bitter Pill, which premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in 2024 and was picked up by PBS’s POV series in 2025. Tim’s other films include Finders Keepers, The Aria of Babyface Cauliflower Brown, J. Cole Forest Hills Drive: Homecoming, J. Cole: 4 Your Eyez Only, Out of Omaha and The Passing On. In 2024, Tim and creative partner Andy McMillan launched None Taken, a boutique production company creating films and brand narratives.