What could have ended up as crass, cringy and possibly offensive actually results in a very funny and realistic treatment of the premise.
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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
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.
12/18/09
Immensely enjoyable, an insightful and humorous depiction of complicated, yet ultimately simple, male drives.
12/18/09
Humpday is a high-concept comedy made for low-budget money that might just be one of the funniest films of the year.
12/18/09
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.
12/18/09
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.
12/18/09
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.
12/18/09
Writer-director Lynn Shelton has crafted a richly rewarding script that enables the viewer - with a minimum of effort - to buy into an idea which in lesser hands would flail impotently. As the guys say "it's beyond gay."
12/18/09
Fresh, funny and subtly insightful, this daring little indie bromance feels like the movie Hollywood wouldn’t have the balls to make.
12/18/09
The farce that follows is both ridiculous and surprisingly real, mining a very rich seam of comedy while also making some very sharp points about male friendships and the often very blurred line between straight and gay.
12/18/09
Shelton's wry script, together with a troika of perfectly judged performances, transforms a set-up that has the potential to be endlessly distasteful into a wry, engaging version of the “will-they-won't-they?” movie.
12/18/09
An intelligent, low-key look at male sexuality which is sensitively handled. What a pity, then, that the ending's such a let-down... or an anti-climax, you could say.
12/18/09
The questions are piquant, the answers droll and surprising.
12/18/09
Forget the buddy movie and the "bromance", this wryly provocative comedy takes man-love to a place of palm-sweating uncertainty.
12/18/09
More subtle and insightful than you might have expected.
12/18/09
The film is also notable for tackling a daring subject in an original and intriguing way.
12/18/09
Shot in a disarmingly improvised style, it's not clear whether this is a dramatic comedy or a very funny drama. Whatever it is, it boldly faces one of the biggest taboos of American society: male intimacy.
12/18/09
We've had romcoms - now here's the first of the homcoms. And I've gotta admit it made me feel both happy and gay.
12/18/09
Though often very funny, writer/director Lynn Shelton's film lacks some of the insight into the awkwardness of male friendship found in recent mainstream comedy hits.
12/18/09
This audience-friendly indie sex comedy features almost no sex but plenty of nervous male bonding and a whole new angle on performance anxiety.
12/06/09
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