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The Solution

"Publish Or Perish"

2025

0h 17m

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Thriller

Drama

Overview

A math professor, rejected over and over again for publication, finds herself supplanted by her genius-level teaching assistant, and resorts to drastic measures to re-assert her authority.

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7 featured cast members

Starring

Diana Simonzadeh

Dr. Ruby Finnegan

Jocelyn Zamudio

Aiza Tahan

William Ryder

Dean North

Avery Stevenson

911 Operator (voice)

Leslie Najera-Rivas

911 Caller (voice)

Edward Ashton-Hayes

Aiza's Boyfriend

John Klein

John Ray (voice)

Creative team

Directed by: Steve Kniss
John Klein
Written by: Ben Kurstin
Produced by: Ben Kurstin
Tin Nguyen

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