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The Deadline

The Deadline

You can't escape it!

2025•11m
Comedy

A writer struggles to turn in his screenplay before a fatal deadline imposed by two enforcers that gift a strange, world-changing technology...

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EN

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Cast

Alex Molnar

The Writer

Marcus Spurgeon

The Warner Brother

Matthew Shaffer

The Other Warner Brother

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