Humpday is something surprising: a sharply observed slice of life, an entertaining example of the microbudget genre called mumblecore.
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08/06/09
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.
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 script feels about ten re-writes short of being filmable.
08/03/09
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
Writer/director Lynn Shelton's sexual sitcom is a lighthearted satire of machismo and insecurity where the laughs emerge from restless, uncomfortable silences.
07/31/09
Humpday [captures] the lives of its protagonists more credibly than any Hollywood-manufactured comedy of recent vintage.
07/31/09
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
Unfortunately, Humpday is held back by the blandness of both Ben and Andrew. Their friendship, which is supposed to be along the lines of the uneasy bond in the terrific Old Joy, never comes into focus in their dull, rambling scenes together.
07/31/09
There's more believable, raw humanity here than in Michael Bay's entire oeuvre.
07/31/09
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.
07/31/09
This is an excruciating dramedy of schadenfruede for the anything-goes hipness of the last decade and a half which has devalued contentment as a cop out
07/30/09
I walked into Humpday expecting grainy, hand-held art, and an episode of the The Honeymooners broke out.
07/30/09
While at times the improvisational dialogue sounds like audio filler, the three leads are poignant and perceptive. Likewise Shelton's film, considerably more complex than those 'bros will be bros' comedies of male bonding.
07/30/09
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.
07/30/09
Those conversations were really memorable and really well executed.
07/27/09
It kind of runs out of steam.
07/27/09
With astute and subtle precision, [director] Shelton burrows deeply inside the psyches of her characters who do not want to admit that they've changed considerably since they last saw each other a decade before.
07/24/09
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 CriticShelton never follows up on the film's satirical possibilities.
07/24/09
Top CriticOne 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
Even if the movie doesn't completely work, it's apt to leave you talking about it for days.
07/24/09
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