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.
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07/24/09
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
[A] startlingly good comedy that makes Brüno seem barely daring.
07/24/09
A very good dissection of friendship, sexuality, ego, domesticity, and our perceptions about who we are and how far we are willing to go to prove that we are not so easily-defined.
07/24/09
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
Evolves so naturally it never feels outrageous.
07/24/09
A film that promises to be an outrageous comedy exploring contemporary sexual mores winds up coming across as little more than this generation's "Baghead."
07/24/09
There's more overanalysis here than in a week's worth of The View.
07/23/09
Humpday radiates with the sheen of a film that has been thought out within an inch of its witty and insightful life.
07/23/09
Shelton often seems hemmed in by the high concept, but she manages to worm her way out so expertly that when it's over, the whole thing feels like it was built backwards, starting not with the premise but with the final, observant conversation.
07/23/09
Humpday just wrings every uncomfortable laugh from its premise then shudders to a halt: cut, end credits.
07/23/09
Features excellent performances and a plenty discussion-worthy take on personal and marital boundaries--and the way that the same thing looks different from various angles.
07/23/09
Humpday is funny, yes, but also observant and thought-provoking.
07/23/09
Top CriticHumpday may not be the single best movie I've seen so far this year -- though it's certainly a contender for the title -- but it's without doubt the most surprising.
07/17/09
Shelton shows great insight into the contradictory mind of the modern man.
07/16/09
Transforms a thoroughly outrageous premise into a thoughtful study of the burdens of 21st-century masculinity.
07/14/09
Initially refreshing, witty and awkwardly funny, but it morphs into a shallow, tedious, lazy and ultimately forgettable comedy.
07/11/09
Sadly, the most interesting characters in "Humpday" are not the main focuses of the story.
07/10/09
Has moments of insight and cleverness, but it's pretty threadbare in every sense.
07/10/09
One of the best indie films of the year, Humpday is a lighter descendant of 'sex lies and videotape,' yet burrows just as deep into the male psyche and the human capacity for self-deceit.
07/10/09
Few kinds of art are more boring than the insistently transgressive, and few movies are more boring than Humpday.
07/10/09
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