Humpday is the most accessible film so far to come out of the so-called Mumblecore movement.
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04/14/09
Humpday (2009)
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Reviews Counted:96
Fresh:72
Rotten:24
Average Rating:6.6/10
Consensus: Observant and insightful, this indie comedy takes a different tack on the "bromance" but still makes a point without sermonizing.
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Genre: Comedies
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
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10/01/09
Unlike a lot of institutional raunch in today's comedy, Humpday finds laughs out of what is rarely made explicit between buddies.
07/24/09
Top CriticMumblecore comes of age with this smartly written and well-acted, grown-up version of a "bromantic" comedy.
07/10/09
Shelton's low-fi treatment helps soften it, but too many overcooked moments still seep through.
11/19/09
The addlepated 'Humpday," wherein charcters laugh and laugh and laugh. So what's the joke?
08/06/09
Is there anything more stereo-typical than straight guys locked in a mutual dare? Well, here the stakes couldn't be higher, or funnier.
08/03/09
Mumblecore meets screwball in 'Humpday,' an audacious character comedy that squeezes so much humor and pertinence out of its low budget and high concept that even the audience feels the pinch.
09/11/09
It's funny and sweet and curious about the nature of dude friendship, although Shelton, like her characters, equivocates a little too much about the eventual outcome.
06/16/09
Humpday succeeds by grounding its risqué premise in the awkwardness and humor of real people trying their damnedest to communicate. A lot.
07/31/09
One of the big problems in Humpday for this viewer is the characters, none of whom really engages a viewer's imagination or emotion.
07/24/09
Explores the dynamics of male camaraderie, sexual politics, and competitiveness.
07/09/09
I find it interesting that that the two best films about men that I’ve seen this summer (The Hurt Locker being the other) have been directed by women.
07/24/09
Humpday is the reductio ad absurdum of the recent spate of bromance movies. ... It dares to ask what happens when a bromance evolves into a straight-up romance.
08/28/09
Humpday just wrings every uncomfortable laugh from its premise then shudders to a halt: cut, end credits.
07/23/09
ultimately plays as behavioral experiment and, slapping their stomachs and chests in nervous rhythm, its leads are prime specimens
07/09/09
More sophisticated than a brief plot synopsis indicates, and it is one of the most observant and intelligent movies ever about male relationships.
06/30/09
The script feels about ten re-writes short of being filmable.
08/03/09
Humpday uses it absurd premise for maximum comic discomfort and its this approach that should have audiences unable to look away unless they are doubled over in laughter.
02/18/09
...plays as if director Lynn Shelton watched Kelly Reichardt's "Old Joy" and decided to turn it into a comedy. It's abrupt ending plays like a filmmaker who has run out of idea.
07/09/09
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