Lynn Shelton's breakthrough bromance comedy is funny, sharp and true -- with no preachy sexual politics.
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07/10/09
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
Mumblecore comes of age with this smartly written and well-acted, grown-up version of a "bromantic" comedy.
07/10/09
Humpday surprises us from beginning to end. It's a fresh take on the familiar topic of friendship -- and a wise one.
07/10/09
Humpday makes you squirm and think, in the best possible way.
07/10/09
Top CriticThe film ends up being about not just a really idiotic dare, but about the bounds of friendship and the bonds of marriage — and about much more besides.
07/10/09
In Humpday, Andrew can't help but compete with Anna, who has stolen his bro, or more precisely, his slowly receding notion of himself.
07/10/09
The movie’s unblinking observation of a friendship put to the test is amused, queasy making, kindhearted and unfailingly truthful.
07/10/09
Top CriticCan director Lynn Shelton sustain enough interest building up to the will-they-or-won't-they resolution? Yes, thanks single-handedly to the cast.
07/09/09
It milks its edgy high concept for plenty of laughs, but it also does more. Shelton has made a touching, quietly disturbing comedy about the way our minds can take us prisoner.
07/09/09
...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
A warm and usually winning shoestring-budgeted effort that proves money does not equate to real talent.
07/09/09
Writer-director Lynn Shelton sweetly, mischievously tracks Ben and Andrew as they jaw, shoot hoops, roughhouse, and hug it out.
07/09/09
Explores the dynamics of male camaraderie, sexual politics, and competitiveness.
07/09/09
In scene after scene, Humpday carefully raises the stakes until it hits a finale loaded with humor, tenderness, and delicious ambiguity.
07/09/09
ultimately plays as behavioral experiment and, slapping their stomachs and chests in nervous rhythm, its leads are prime specimens
07/09/09
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
07/09/09
Ultimately devoid of anything much to say about sexuality or friendship.
07/08/09
Lynn Shelton, the movie’s writer and director (and an onscreen libertine), has more in mind than simply making bros squirm.
07/08/09
Humpday typifies the low-level indie film where characters talk out silly ideas they don’t believe in anyway, just the pop confusion in their heads.
07/08/09
It’s interesting that Humpday, a movie as sneakily taboo-nudging and subversive in a lot of the same ways as Sacha Baron Cohen’s Brüno, opens on the same weekend but with a lot less fuss.
07/08/09
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