Shelton's low-fi treatment helps soften it, but too many overcooked moments still seep through.
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Humpday (2009)
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Reviews Counted:115
Fresh:91
Rotten:24
Average Rating:6.7/10
Consensus: Observant and insightful, this indie comedy takes a different tack on the "bromance" but still makes a point without sermonizing.
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... [More]
Starring: Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard, Alycia Delmore, Lynn Shelton
Director: Lynn Shelton
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Reviews for Humpday
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.
11/13/09
This film is not very believable, and it really doesn't seem to go anywhere.
11/08/09
It says very little about anything though promising to say much.
10/24/09
In its unassuming, offhand way, "Humpday" gets the details of male friendship uncomfortably right -- the self-denials, the macho bluster, the constant comparisons about where that guy's at in life versus me.
10/16/09
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.
09/30/09
Mumblecore meets screwball in 'Humpday,' an audacious character comedy that squeezes so much humor and pertinence out of its low budget and high concept that even the audience feels the pinch.
09/11/09
Shelton’s film takes a quantum leap in its funny and fearless third act.
09/04/09
This low-budget art film about two straight men who drunkenly decide to shoot a porno together in the style of a low-budget art film is actually kind of touching, if you can get past the inherent credibility gap.
09/04/09
What's intriguing in this set-up is what the dare might teach the guys about the nature of sexuality.
09/02/09
Humpday is the reductio ad absurdum of the recent spate of bromance movies. ... It dares to ask what happens when a bromance evolves into a straight-up romance.
08/28/09
Getting to the showdown is a fine and funny journey.
08/28/09
There's something surprisingly perceptive about the way the film looks at male relationships and friendships.
08/21/09
There hasn't been a mainstream movie since maybe "The Crying Game" that has so subtly brought up the possibility of a man's bisexuality than "Humpday."
08/18/09
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.
08/16/09
If I wanted to hear would-be counter culture yuppies yell at each other I'd hang out with my own loser friends.
08/11/09
The addlepated 'Humpday," wherein charcters laugh and laugh and laugh. So what's the joke?
08/06/09
Humpday is something surprising: a sharply observed slice of life, an entertaining example of the microbudget genre called mumblecore.
08/06/09
The script feels about ten re-writes short of being filmable.
08/03/09
Is there anything more stereo-typical than straight guys locked in a mutual dare? Well, here the stakes couldn't be higher, or funnier.
08/03/09
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