While rehearsing asking out the girl of his dreams, a lonely and highly allergic Circuit-Shack employee gets stung in the throat by a hornet.
Acting
Gandolfini's physical comedy of swelling desperation.
Production
Perfectly dingy 90s Circuit-Shack authenticity.
Editing
Tight 12 minutes that never lets you breathe.
Director
Blake Rice
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot on location in an actual defunct electronics store in Ohio, with period-accurate inventory sourced from eBay.
The film's title 'Tea' refers to both the beverage Nicholaus never gets to offer and 90s slang for 'truth'—the truth he chokes on.
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