NOVA StudiosFeature film
TheUnderstudy
Break a leg. Preferably his.
A career second-choice actor finally gets the lead — three hours before the theatre is condemned.
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A career second-choice actor finally gets the lead — three hours before the theatre is condemned. Told across a single unbroken season of change, it is a story about what people keep when everything else is negotiable.
Cast
Malik DansuThe Broker
Marguerite FoyFather Solomon
Jonas BeckLark
Idris VanceCommander Hale
Yara SolanoDr. Isolde Ferrar
Ezra LundDetective Aya Serrano
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68%
Based on 3346 verified viewers · 84% critics
Watched it twice in a week.
Gorgeous to look at, genuinely tense, and it never once cheats the audience.
Peter L. · 20 Jul 2026
Watched it twice in a week.
Gorgeous to look at, genuinely tense, and it never once cheats the audience.
Ravi N. · 13 Jul 2026
Watched it twice in a week.
Gorgeous to look at, genuinely tense, and it never once cheats the audience.
Bryn A. · 6 Jul 2026
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