Blacker than you can imagine black comedy/tragedy about a a couple of new parents who buy a coffee table that they are told will "change their lives."
I'm not going to give you details because this is a film where all of the tension comes from the worm turning as events transpire that may result in them being found out. Think of the Hitchcock films were a bomb is hidden and we are waiting for it to go off. It's not a bomb, but we are curled up in a ball waiting for the true horror to be revealed.
This is a very very uncomfortable comedy until it isn't (it's horrifying), and even when it's funny again it's catch in your throat, "I think I'm going to be sick" sort of funny until it just stops being funny altogether.
I can completely understand people walking out of the theater because they don't want to go there.
And I completely understand if my saying that makes it seem not as bad when you sit down and see this, and I'm sorry for that, but some of you need to be warned.
If you want to go to a really dark place THE COFFEE TABLE is highly recommended. Me I don't know if I want to go there again.
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