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The actress will play an obsessive-compulsive maths teacher in the film, based on the novel by Aimee Bender, reports Variety.
Her character finds order in numbers and attempts to communicate her passion to a seven-year-old girl in her class.
Marilyn Angelo will make her feature directorial debut from a screenplay by Pam Falk and Mike Ellis (The Wedding Planner).
Angelo previously helmed award-winning 2005 documentary Mad Hot Ballroom.
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