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Humpday (2009)

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Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 130
Fresh: 102 | Rotten: 28

Observant and insightful, this indie comedy takes a different tack on the "bromance" but still makes a point without sermonizing.

Average Rating: 6.8/10
Critic Reviews: 29
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 6

Observant and insightful, this indie comedy takes a different tack on the "bromance" but still makes a point without sermonizing.

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My Effortless Brilliance writer/director Lynn Shelton takes the topic of male bonding to new extremes with this comedy about two best friends who make an unusual pact that both may soon come to regret. Back in college, Andrew and Ben were inseparable. Years later, Andrew comes knocking on Ben's door and discovers that his former roommate is all grown up -- married and planning to have a baby. Meanwhile, Andrew never settled down at all, and has spent the past decade partying and traveling the

R, 1 hr. 34 min.

Drama, Comedy

Directed By: Lynn Shelton

Written By: Lynn Shelton

In Theaters: Jul 10, 2009 Wide

On DVD: Nov 17, 2009

Box Office:$0.3M

Magnolia Pictures

What's intriguing in this set-up is what the dare might teach the guys about the nature of sexuality.

September 2, 2009 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel

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Roger Moore

Orlando Sentinel

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Getting to the showdown is a fine and funny journey.

August 28, 2009 Full Review Source: Denver Post

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Lisa Kennedy

Denver Post

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The addlepated 'Humpday," wherein charcters laugh and laugh and laugh. So what's the joke?

August 6, 2009 Full Review Source: Passionate Moviegoer

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Joe Baltake

Passionate Moviegoer

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Writer/director Lynn Shelton's sexual sitcom is a lighthearted satire of machismo and insecurity where the laughs emerge from restless, uncomfortable silences.

July 31, 2009 Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune

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Colin Covert

Minneapolis Star Tribune

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Humpday succeeds by grounding its risqu� premise in the awkwardness and humor of real people trying their damnedest to communicate. A lot.

July 31, 2009 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle

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Amy Biancolli

Houston Chronicle

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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.

July 30, 2009 Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer

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Carrie Rickey

Philadelphia Inquirer

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So what is Humpday really about? If anything, the power of women

August 26, 2011 Full Review Source: East Bay Express

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Kelly Vance

East Bay Express

While the dare itself seems almost contrived to make the movie happen, what transpires afterward is a very universal experience for people who take stock of their lives for the first time after college.

February 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Las Vegas CityLife

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Matt Kelemen

Las Vegas CityLife Source: Las Vegas CityLife

Some nice performances highlight a strangely-paced exploration of the male identity and its inability to cope with unique situations.

July 18, 2010 Full Review Source: Oscar Guy

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Wesley Lovell

Oscar Guy

It's attractively performed, fairly amusing and worked out in a convincing if predictable way.

January 5, 2010 Full Review Source: Observer [UK]

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Philip French

Observer [UK]

The sort of film that Kevin Smith must dream of making. It's sweet, piquant, bold and intelligent, balancing its outrageous concept with relationships and conversations that are all too believable.

January 5, 2010 Full Review Source: Independent on Sunday

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Nicholas Barber

Independent on Sunday

One could only feel sorry for Alycia Delmore as the pliant wife of the silly husband, who goes along with his irritatingly neurotic friend's idea.

January 5, 2010 Full Review Source: This is London

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Derek Malcolm

This is London

...a compelling and thoroughly original modern comedy.

January 4, 2010 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

Lynn Shelton's film%u2014a promising premise in search of a payoff with more nourishment than room-service steak and milkshakes%u2014frequently dazzles and delights, but once the look-alike boxers come into frame, the only verb left is disappoints.

December 31, 2009 Full Review Source: JWR

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S. James Wegg

JWR

One of the ten best home video releases of 2009, and one of the year's best films period.

December 31, 2009 Full Review Source: Orange County and Long Beach Blade

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Fr. Chris Carpenter

Orange County and Long Beach Blade

What could have ended up as crass, cringy and possibly offensive actually results in a very funny and realistic treatment of the premise.

December 18, 2009 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine

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Angie Errigo

Empire Magazine

What finally lifts 'Humpday' above macho junk like 'The Hangover' is its all-inclusive warmth: for all their adolescent self-delusion, Shelton truly loves these characters. And after 90 minutes, so will you.

December 18, 2009 Full Review Source: Time Out

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Tom Huddlestone

Time Out

Immensely enjoyable, an insightful and humorous depiction of complicated, yet ultimately simple, male drives.

December 18, 2009 Full Review Source: Film4

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Simon Jablonski

Film4

Humpday is a high-concept comedy made for low-budget money that might just be one of the funniest films of the year.

December 18, 2009 Full Review Source: Times [UK]

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Kevin Maher

Times [UK]

The ending of the movie is an awful let-down, which is a shame: the film had been weirdly involving and Alycia Delmore is good as Ben's outraged wife.

December 18, 2009 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK]

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian [UK]

The film does a fair amount of squirming itself, but not before giving honest and hilarious thought to the carnal intricacies of the whole project.

December 18, 2009 Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph

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Tim Robey

Daily Telegraph

Shelton has been tagged as an extremely adept chronicler of the associations between men. It's fair to say that the director is good on relationships, period.

December 18, 2009 Comment

Jason Wood

Little White Lies

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Okay, if you're like a friend of mine, who finds scenes of extreme awkwardness so uncomfortable that you're not even willing to sit through them (squirming), then stay well away from this film. If however, you're like me, and willing to laugh at the holes that machismo can sometimes dig for itself, you'll laugh your

March 23, 2012