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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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Ben (Mark Duplass) and Andrew (Joshua Leonard) are two college friends whose lives have taken very different paths. While Andrew's gone globetrotting, Ben settles down with a wife (Alycia Delmore) and a white picket fence. When Andrew shows up at Ben's do
Shelton shows great insight into the contradictory mind of the modern man.
Top CriticThose conversations were really memorable and really well executed.
It kind of runs out of steam.
Shelton’s film takes a quantum leap in its funny and fearless third act.
In scene after scene, Humpday carefully raises the stakes until it hits a finale loaded with humor, tenderness, and delicious ambiguity.
A pleasurable clash goes on in your head between your belief in the moment-to-moment sincerity of these two guys and your disbelief that they could ever go through with their plan.
Humpday just wrings every uncomfortable laugh from its premise then shudders to a halt: cut, end credits.
There's more believable, raw humanity here than in Michael Bay's entire oeuvre.
Shelton’s ability to get terrific performances out of an unknown cast borders on the astonishing.
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.
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.
Immensely enjoyable, an insightful and humorous depiction of complicated, yet ultimately simple, male drives.
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.
Humpday is funny, yes, but also observant and thought-provoking.
Top CriticA surprisingly real male relationship examination.
It's also hilarious, which makes all that unspoken relationship drama a lot easier to explore.
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.
Shelton's low-fi treatment helps soften it, but too many overcooked moments still seep through.
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.
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