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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... 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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You have to give Lynn Shelton a lot of credit for trying to explore a part of the male lifestyle that often deliberately goes unspoken.

Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net | comment Comment
07/07/09
Edward Douglas
Edward Douglas
ComingSoon.net

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

Lynn Shelton’s marvelous chamber comedy Humpday butts up against the same sort of taboos as Brüno, and in its fumbling, semi-improvised way, it’s equally hilarious and even more subversive.

Full Review Source: New York Magazine | comment Comment
07/06/09
David Edelstein
David Edelstein
New York Magazine

The problem is not the farfetched contrivance of Humpday, but how unmoored it seems from anything but self-satisfied cuteness.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment 7 Comments
07/06/09
Bill Weber
Bill Weber
Slant Magazine

With its easy-going pacing and consistently funny give-and-take, Humpday is more than just a one-joke movie. It's a perceptive comedy about masculinity.

Full Review Source: Hollywood & Fine | comment Comment
07/06/09
Marshall Fine
Marshall Fine
Hollywood & Fine

The title suggests a titillating, frivolous film, but it's actually a serio comedy about socio-sexual taboos and the very nature of male friendship.

Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | comment Comment
07/02/09
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.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

More sophisticated than a brief plot synopsis indicates, and it is one of the most observant and intelligent movies ever about male relationships.

Full Review Source: Orange County and Long Beach Blade | comment Comment
06/30/09
Fr. Chris Carpenter
Fr. Chris Carpenter
Orange County and Long Beach Blade

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.

Full Review Source: Las Vegas Weekly | comment Comment
06/16/09
Josh Bell
Josh Bell
Las Vegas Weekly

Hilariously perceptive.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
05/12/09
Aaron Hillis
Aaron Hillis
Village Voice

Humpday is like a peek into the brain of dudes and it’s either funny or discomforting depending on if you’re a guy or a girl. As a guy, I only prayed my wife wasn’t catching on.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
03/17/09
Don R. Lewis
Don R. Lewis
Film Threat

Consistently funny, as well as genuinely insightful about the way men relate to one another.

Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | comment Comment
02/25/09
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

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.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
02/18/09
Erik Childress
Erik Childress
eFilmCritic.com

A surprisingly real male relationship examination.

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

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 whip-smart, uproariously funny comedy which uses a "bros will be bros" dare as the in point to talk about the inevitable loss of self in long term relationships.

Full Review Source: SpoutBlog | comment Comment
01/16/09
Karina Longworth
Karina Longworth
SpoutBlog
 
 
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