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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.

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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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.

Full Review Source: New York Press | comment 5 Comments
07/08/09
Armond White
Armond White
New York Press

Initially refreshing, witty and awkwardly funny, but it morphs into a shallow, tedious, lazy and ultimately forgettable comedy.

Full Review Source: NYC Movie Guru | comment Comment
07/11/09
Avi Offer
Avi Offer
NYC Movie Guru

It kind of runs out of steam.

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

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

Unfortunately, Humpday is held back by the blandness of both Ben and Andrew. Their friendship, which is supposed to be along the lines of the uneasy bond in the terrific Old Joy, never comes into focus in their dull, rambling scenes together.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
07/31/09
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

It says very little about anything though promising to say much.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
10/24/09
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Sadly, the most interesting characters in "Humpday" are not the main focuses of the story.

Full Review Source: FilmJerk.com | comment Comment
07/10/09
Edward Havens
Edward Havens
FilmJerk.com

Has moments of insight and cleverness, but it's pretty threadbare in every sense.

Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion | comment Comment
07/10/09
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

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.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
07/24/09
J. R. Jones
J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader

Shelton's low-fi treatment helps soften it, but too many overcooked moments still seep through.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
11/19/09
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

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

Full Review Source: Passionate Moviegoer | comment Comment
08/06/09
Joe Baltake
Joe Baltake
Passionate Moviegoer

If I wanted to hear would-be counter culture yuppies yell at each other I'd hang out with my own loser friends.

Full Review Source: UGO | comment Comment
08/11/09
Jordan Hoffman
Jordan Hoffman
UGO

Possibilities are at least flirted with, if not realized, the results waver between interesting and tedious, only to come up with the inevitable lemon of a resolution.

Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | comment Comment
09/30/09
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Shelton never follows up on the film's satirical possibilities.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment 1 Comment
07/24/09
Kirk Honeycutt
Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter
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Few kinds of art are more boring than the insistently transgressive, and few movies are more boring than Humpday.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment 1 Comment
07/10/09
Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith
New York Post
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The script feels about ten re-writes short of being filmable.

Full Review Source: MTV | comment Comment
08/03/09
Larry Carroll
Larry Carroll
MTV

...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.

Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | comment Comment
07/09/09
Laura Clifford
Laura Clifford
Reeling Reviews

One of the big problems in Humpday for this viewer is the characters, none of whom really engages a viewer's imagination or emotion.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment 1 Comment
07/24/09
Liz Braun
Liz Braun
Jam! Movies

A mumblecore bore about two heterosexual men, one living a conventional married life and the other a bohemian bachelor, who decide to make a gay porn movie on a dare. It would have been far more interesting, I'm afraid.

Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | comment Comment
11/13/09
Louis Proyect
Louis Proyect
rec.arts.movies.reviews

Ultimately devoid of anything much to say about sexuality or friendship.

Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness | comment Comment
07/08/09
Nick Schager
Nick Schager
Lessons of Darkness
 
 
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