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: Claire Ave’Lallemant is a queer Emmy® Award-winning editor who chose to forgo the traditional college path in favor of a grassroots, hands-on education, beginning as an assistant editor on Cecilia Aldarondo’s Memories of a Penitent Heart (POV). She credits the film with showing her the power of the medium to use real life stories to reach into hearts to change minds—and has been in love with documentaries ever since.

After assisting on several features, Claire graduated herself into the main editor seat and has gone on to become a Karen Schmeer Film Editing fellow and Sundance Institute-supported artist recognized for “embracing new forms of storytelling and finding new language to express personal truths.” 

Her credits include feature films such as Flipside (Toronto) and Drowning in Silence (Santa Barbara); series including Choir (Disney+, 2024 IDA’s Best Limited Series nominee), Dogs (Netflix), and The Pharmacist (Netflix); as well as shorts like Translators (Tribeca X, 2023 Best Short Award) and Final Finishers (ESPN+, 2026 Outstanding Sports Documentary Short Emmy®).