It's attractively performed, fairly amusing and worked out in a convincing if predictable way.
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01/05/10
Humpday (2009)
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Reviews Counted:120
Fresh:94
Rotten:26
Average Rating:6.7/10
Consensus: Observant and insightful, this indie comedy takes a different tack on the "bromance" but still makes a point without sermonizing.
Theatrical Release:18-12-2009
Synopsis: It's been a decade since Ben (Duplass) and Andrew (Leonard) were the bad boys of their college campus. Ben has settled down and found a job, wife, and home. Andrew took the alternate route as a... [More]
Starring: Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard, Alycia Delmore, Lynn Shelton
Director: Lynn Shelton
Reviews for Humpday
The sort of film that Kevin Smith must dream of making. It's sweet, piquant, bold and intelligent, balancing its outrageous concept with relationships and conversations that are all too believable.
01/05/10
One could only feel sorry for Alycia Delmore as the pliant wife of the silly husband, who goes along with his irritatingly neurotic friend’s idea.
01/05/10
What could have ended up as crass, cringy and possibly offensive actually results in a very funny and realistic treatment of the premise.
12/18/09
Top CriticWhat finally lifts ‘Humpday’ above macho junk like ‘The Hangover’ is its all-inclusive warmth: for all their adolescent self-delusion, Shelton truly loves these characters. And after 90 minutes, so will you.
12/18/09
Top CriticImmensely enjoyable, an insightful and humorous depiction of complicated, yet ultimately simple, male drives.
12/18/09
Top CriticHumpday is a high-concept comedy made for low-budget money that might just be one of the funniest films of the year.
12/18/09
Top CriticThe ending of the movie is an awful let-down, which is a shame: the film had been weirdly involving and Alycia Delmore is good as Ben's outraged wife.
12/18/09
Top CriticThe film does a fair amount of squirming itself, but not before giving honest and hilarious thought to the carnal intricacies of the whole project.
12/18/09
Top CriticShelton has been tagged as an extremely adept chronicler of the associations between men. It’s fair to say that the director is good on relationships, period.
12/18/09
Writer-director Lynn Shelton has crafted a richly rewarding script that enables the viewer - with a minimum of effort - to buy into an idea which in lesser hands would flail impotently. As the guys say "it's beyond gay."
12/18/09
Fresh, funny and subtly insightful, this daring little indie bromance feels like the movie Hollywood wouldn’t have the balls to make.
12/18/09
The farce that follows is both ridiculous and surprisingly real, mining a very rich seam of comedy while also making some very sharp points about male friendships and the often very blurred line between straight and gay.
12/18/09
Shelton's wry script, together with a troika of perfectly judged performances, transforms a set-up that has the potential to be endlessly distasteful into a wry, engaging version of the “will-they-won't-they?” movie.
12/18/09
An intelligent, low-key look at male sexuality which is sensitively handled. What a pity, then, that the ending's such a let-down... or an anti-climax, you could say.
12/18/09
The questions are piquant, the answers droll and surprising.
12/18/09
Forget the buddy movie and the "bromance", this wryly provocative comedy takes man-love to a place of palm-sweating uncertainty.
12/18/09
More subtle and insightful than you might have expected.
12/18/09
The film is also notable for tackling a daring subject in an original and intriguing way.
12/18/09
Shot in a disarmingly improvised style, it's not clear whether this is a dramatic comedy or a very funny drama. Whatever it is, it boldly faces one of the biggest taboos of American society: male intimacy.
12/18/09
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