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Humpday (2009)

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Reviews Counted:97

Fresh:73

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... 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 vagabond artist, skipping the globe from Chiapas to Cambodia. When Andrew shows up unannounced on Ben's doorstep, they easily fall back into their old dynamic of macho one-upmanship. Late into the night at a wild party, the two find themselves locked in a mutual dare: to enter an amateur porn contest together. But what kind of boundary-breaking, envelope pushing porn can two straight dudes make? After the booze and "big talk" run out, only one idea remains -- they will have sex together on camera. It's not gay; it's beyond gay. It's not porn; it's art. But how exactly will it work? And more importantly, who will tell Anna (Delmore), Ben's wife?

Writer/director Lynn Shelton, director of My Effortless Brilliance and recipient of the "Someone to Watch Award" at the 2009 Independent Spirit Awards, expertly mines the biggest ironies of the male ego to hilarious effect. Humpday is a buddy movie gone wild. --© Magnolia [More]

Starring: Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard, Alycia Delmore, Lynn Shelton

Starring: Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard, Alycia Delmore, Lynn Shelton, Trina Willard

Director: Lynn Shelton

Director: Lynn Shelton
Screenwriter: Lynn Shelton
Producer: Lynn Shelton
Studio: Magnolia Pictures

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Humpday is the most accessible film so far to come out of the so-called Mumblecore movement.

Full Review Source: Screen International | comment Comment
04/14/09
Mike Goodridge
Mike Goodridge
Screen International

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Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
10/01/09
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

Ben (Mark Duplass) and Andrew (Joshua Leonard) are two college friends whose lives have taken very different paths. While Andrew's gone globetrotting, Ben settles down with a wife (Alycia Delmore) and a white picket fence. When Andrew shows up at Ben's do

Full Review Source: AskMen.com | comment Comment
07/09/09
Rick Mele
Rick Mele
AskMen.com

Shelton shows great insight into the contradictory mind of the modern man.

Full Review Source: Associated Press | comment Comment
07/16/09
Christy Lemire
Christy Lemire
Associated Press

It kind of runs out of steam.

Full Review Source: At the Movies | comment Comment
07/27/09
Ben Lyons
Ben Lyons
At the Movies

Those conversations were really memorable and really well executed.

Full Review Source: At the Movies | comment Comment
07/27/09
Ben Mankiewicz
Ben Mankiewicz
At the Movies

Shelton’s film takes a quantum leap in its funny and fearless third act.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
09/04/09
Kimberly Jones
Kimberly Jones
Austin Chronicle

In scene after scene, Humpday carefully raises the stakes until it hits a finale loaded with humor, tenderness, and delicious ambiguity.

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
07/09/09
Scott Tobias
Scott Tobias
AV Club

A pleasurable clash goes on in your head between your belief in the moment-to-moment sincerity of these two guys and your disbelief that they could ever go through with their plan.

Full Review Source: Baltimore Sun | comment Comment
07/31/09
Michael Sragow
Michael Sragow
Baltimore Sun

Humpday just wrings every uncomfortable laugh from its premise then shudders to a halt: cut, end credits.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
07/23/09
Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Boston Globe

There's more believable, raw humanity here than in Michael Bay's entire oeuvre.

Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
07/31/09
Brett Michel
Brett Michel
Boston Phoenix

Shelton’s ability to get terrific performances out of an unknown cast borders on the astonishing.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
01/20/09
Ray Greene
Ray Greene
Boxoffice Magazine

A tale of gay chicken slathered with a thick coating of verbal wandering, Humpday is cute, well acted, but exceptionally trying at times, using an aesthetic reserved for realism to push across a trite frat house concept.

Full Review Source: BrianOrndorf.com | comment Comment
07/30/09
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
BrianOrndorf.com

In its unassuming, offhand way, "Humpday" gets the details of male friendship uncomfortably right -- the self-denials, the macho bluster, the constant comparisons about where that guy's at in life versus me.

Full Review Source: Capital Times (Madison, WI) | comment Comment
10/16/09
Rob Thomas
Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

The scenes between husband and wife are spectacularly awkward and arresting, though the movie grows more dubious the nearer the guys get to their shooting session in a local hotel room.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
07/24/09
J. R. Jones
J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader

Humpday is funny, yes, but also observant and thought-provoking.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
07/23/09
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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A surprisingly real male relationship examination.

Full Review Source: CinemaBlend.com | comment Comment
01/22/09
Joshua Tyler
Joshua Tyler
CinemaBlend.com

It's also hilarious, which makes all that unspoken relationship drama a lot easier to explore.

Full Review Source: CinemaBlend.com | comment Comment
07/06/09
Katey Rich
Katey Rich
CinemaBlend.com

Alycia Delmore gives a nuanced performance as Anna, but it's the dumb-as-stumps performances from Duplass and Leonard that make "Humpday" a movie that you can laugh at as much as you laugh with it.

Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | comment Comment
07/01/09
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

Shelton's low-fi treatment helps soften it, but too many overcooked moments still seep through.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
11/19/09
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
 
 
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