A solution that pleases all

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A solution that pleases all, is a 1986 Egyptian movie, directed by Elweya Zaki, and starring Sanaa Gamil, Samir Ghanem, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim. with a runtime of 96 minutes.

Overview

A Solution That Pleases All is an Arabic social comedy that uses the universal headache of housing to expose the delightful absurdities of family dynamics. A wife wants to ease her husband's late son out of the family home so she can live quietly and bring her own daughter to stay. Meanwhile, the son is desperate to have the apartment to himself so he can get married. The situation seems intractable — until someone floats the outlandish suggestion that the son simply marry the daughter and share the apartment. Events spiral from there in increasingly comic directions, as the search for a tidy solution keeps producing new complications. The film is a warm, sharp-edged comedy about housing, family self-interest, and the limits of compromise.

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