Synopsis
When a couple discovers that a brass teapot makes them money whenever they hurt themselves, they must come to terms with how far they are willing to go.
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Cast
- Juno TempleAlice
- Michael AngaranoJohn
- Alexis BledelPayton
- Billy MagnussenArnie
- Alia ShawkatLouise
- Bobby MoynihanChuck
- Steve ParkDr. Ling
- Ben RappaportRicky
- Lucy WaltersMary
- Jack McBrayerJoe
Recommendations
- 70
Variety
Despite the inherent perversity of the concept, Mosley succeeds in maintaining a certain sweetness throughout. Even more impressively, she makes her low-budget enterprise look as slick as most midrange studio comedies, demonstrating herself a director with both imagination and technical ingenuity. - 63
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
The Brass Teapot stumbles into tedium, a parable that never quite resolves itself into the moral lesson it so desperately wants to convey. - 60
Film.com
Despite the numerous patchy moments The Brass Teapot by and large squeaks by as an enjoyable entertainment. - 50
The Playlist
With the help of a talented cast, The Brass Teapot is able to coast on charm for the first hour, but then the fairytale idea that powers the film runs out of juice, and the last forty-five minutes hurtle toward a wrap-up that feels both awkward and overwrought, needlessly portentous and arriving much too late. - 50
Slant Magazine
Imbued with a buoyant mysticism, the film is more gag-friendly than idea-based, primarily relying on the considerable charm of its leads to ground its supernatural conceit. - 50
Observer
Far from the offbeat satire on the American dream gone sour it aims to be, The Brass Teapot is more like a dark flirtation with the American nightmare that backfires. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
While its supernatural premise might have fueled a perfectly good Twilight Zone episode, The Brass Teapot strains to fill its feature-length running time. - 30
Village Voice
Wearing out its welcome long before its moralizing finale, the film...does manage to mine contemporary fears about the increasing worthlessness of a college degree.
