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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.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for some strong sexual content, pervasive language and a scene of drug use.

Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:Jul 10, 2009 Limited

Box Office: $254,272

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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Nov 17, 2009

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DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Widescreen - 1.78

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo - English
  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
  • Subtitles - Spanish
 
 
 
 

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Hilariously perceptive.

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

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

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
07/31/09
Amy Biancolli
Amy Biancolli
Houston Chronicle

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

Full Review Source: I.E. Weekly | comment Comment
07/30/09
Amy Nicholson
Amy Nicholson
I.E. Weekly

Lynn Shelton's breakthrough bromance comedy is funny, sharp and true -- with no preachy sexual politics.

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
07/10/09
Andrew O'Hehir
Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com
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One thing usually that stands out in independent films is the amateurish acting, but that's not the case here. Every performance is right on the money and feels 100% natural.

Full Review Source: Sin Magazine | comment Comment
08/16/09
Austin Kennedy
Austin Kennedy
Sin Magazine

Those conversations were really memorable and really well executed.

Full Review Source: At the Movies | comment Comment
07/27/09
Ben Mankiewicz
Ben Mankiewicz
At the Movies

The 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.

Full Review Source: NPR | comment Comment
07/10/09
Bob Mondello
Bob Mondello
NPR
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There's more believable, raw humanity here than in Michael Bay's entire oeuvre.

Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
07/31/09
Brett Michel
Brett Michel
Boston Phoenix

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.

Full Review Source: BrianOrndorf.com | comment Comment
07/30/09
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
BrianOrndorf.com

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.

Full Review Source: Movie Retriever | comment Comment
07/24/09
Brian Tallerico
Brian Tallerico
Movie Retriever

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.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | comment Comment
07/30/09
Carrie Rickey
Carrie Rickey
Philadelphia Inquirer
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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.

Full Review Source: JoBlo's Movie Emporium | comment Comment
07/24/09
Chris Bumbray
Chris Bumbray
JoBlo's Movie Emporium

ultimately plays as behavioral experiment and, slapping their stomachs and chests in nervous rhythm, its leads are prime specimens

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
07/09/09
Chris Cabin
Chris Cabin
Filmcritic.com

Even if the movie doesn't completely work, it's apt to leave you talking about it for days.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
07/24/09
Christopher Kelly
Christopher Kelly
Dallas Morning News
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Shelton shows great insight into the contradictory mind of the modern man.

Full Review Source: Associated Press | comment Comment
07/16/09
Christy Lemire
Christy Lemire
Associated Press
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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

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

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
07/31/09
Colin Covert
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune

In Humpday, Andrew can't help but compete with Anna, who has stolen his bro, or more precisely, his slowly receding notion of himself.

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
07/10/09
Cynthia Fuchs
Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters

Humpday 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.

Full Review Source: Slate | comment Comment
07/17/09
Dana Stevens
Dana Stevens
Slate

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
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