Alicia I love this movie so much

Spidersecu Don't Believe the Hype

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Jay Harris Lynn Shelton, wrote,produced & directed this little movie that comes across better than some of the major movies of 2009.It has intelligence,it is well written & well acted.I feel Miss Shelton has a long wonderful career ahead of her if this is an example of what she can create.This has a small cast 2 guys & a gal, you need no more if the are appealing. They are Mark Duplass,Joshua Leonard & Alycia Delmore.All 3 are basically from TV, I hope they also have long film career.There are a few others in one scene & do establish the films mood.There is no nudity,some use of the 'f' word, discussion of various kinds of sex, BUT no actual sex scenes. Also do not expect a gay sorry, the box cover art is inaccurate.The 3 characters are likable even tho they have faults, We all have faults.I am glad I saw this I think you will as well.Ratings: *** (out of 4) 88 points (out of 100) IMDb 8 (out of 10)

Turfseer Humpday is a clever and original story about two friends who re-establish their relationship after not seeing each other for quite some time. Mark is a transportation engineer living in Seattle, married to Anna (Alycia Delmore) who is hoping to get pregnant and start a family. One night at about 1:30 in the morning while the couple is sleeping, Mark's old college buddy Andrew (Joshua Leonard) pounds on their door and wakes Mark and Anna up. You're expecting Mark to be annoyed that his old friend has barged in on them without calling beforehand, but surprisingly Mark is ecstatic that Andrew has reappeared in his life.Andrew is a perennial Bohemian type who would have fit right in at Woodstock circa 1969. Mark invites Andrew to stay over and he gladly accepts. We find out that Andrew is just back from Mexico but we're wondering how he supports himself. It turns out that Andrew apparently doesn't need a lot of money to get by as long as he has other Bohemian friends who'll support him. He gets himself situated in a house with the moniker 'Dionysus' prominently displayed over the front door (that should be a clue that farcical happenings are about to transpire). The house is rented by a Lesbian couple, one of whom is Monica played by the film's director, Lynn Shelton (Later Andrew puts the moves on Monica only to discover that she's thoroughly gay and doesn't want to have sex with him).Anna is about to prepare pork chops for dinner for Mark when Andrew calls and invites his buddy over for dinner at the 'Dionysus' House. Mark accepts, expecting to stay only a few hours and return for dinner with his wife. But Mark and Andrew end up getting stoned and having such a great time together that Mark loses track of time with Anna ending up eating dinner alone. While at Dionysus, the upcoming Humpfest is discussed—an artistic porn festival that invites entries from amateur filmmakers. Mark wants to prove to Andrew that getting married and settling down has not dampened his spirit for adventure nor made him into a prude so he suggests they make a film together for the festival with both of them having sex together—the novelty being that these are two straight guys willing to have 'gay sex'.There is of course one obstacle to going through with their plan and that is of course Anna, who Mark realizes might not exactly go crazy over the idea. He promises Andrew that he'll discuss it first with his wife but loses the nerve when he assumes she'll be hostile to his proposal. Later, while Andrew is having drinks with Anna alone, blurts out their novel plan of 'male bonding'.Although initially hostile, Anna eventually comes around to accepting the idea, allowing Mark to go ahead with the tryst, as she wants him to "get it out" of his "system". She even confesses that she made out with some guy while visiting a friend while they were married. Finally, Mark and Andrew meet at a motel with a video camera in order to film the sex act together. It turns out that deep down they feel awkward about the whole thing and over-intellectualize the experience by over-analyzing their feelings in front of the camera. The decision is made not to go through with the project and both Mark and Andrew agree after much deliberation, that they're "okay" with their decision.Writer/Director Lynn Shelton encouraged the actors to improvise most of the scenes from her script which was designed to be only a general blueprint. Mark Duplass and Joshua Leonard end up being highly entertaining as the two buddies who try to outdo one another in an amusing game of one-oneupmanship. It's funny because you don't expect the more conservative character Mark to end up outdoing his free-spirited chum in the game of 'who can be more tolerant'.In a sense, Shelton's story is a plea for tolerance as she takes the taboo subject of gay sex and has two heterosexual characters demystify it into something that is wholly non-threatening. I think most tolerant gay people will pick this up but there will always be a very small minority of 'militant' gays who will be offended since in their 'all-or-nothing' universe, the decision of the straight characters not to have sex is interpreted as a complete rejection of the gay lifestyle. Of course that is not the intent of the filmmaker, who is quite obviously a person who supports gay people.With the breezy banter between the two principals as well as the filmmaker's commendable plea for tolerance, Humpday stands out as a refreshing change of pace in the indie world chocked full of predictable melodramas and comedies peopled with implausible caricatures. Ultimately, Humpday wins no awards as a film of 'great ideas'--but fulfills the cardinal rule of farce: one is permitted the outrage without the consequences.

Movie_Muse_Reviews To set the record straight -- maybe pun intended -- "Humpday" is not a true gay and lesbian film, nor is it a "bromantic comedy" with homophobic slapstick. Lynn Shelton's film is simple: what if two best heterosexual guy friends somehow got it in their heads that filming themselves having sex with each other would be a good idea? "Humpday" explores the bond between men and the difficulty they have with intimacy, particularly when its sexual in nature.Ben (Mark Duplass) is a recently married man planning on starting a family when his old best friend, the free-spirited Andrew (Joshua Leonard) shows up at his house in the middle of the night. At a party, the two learn about an amateur porn competition and come up with the idea that two straight best friends having sex with each other would make a real artistic statement. Although they laugh at the idea the next day, their machismo of not wanting to back out in addition to some internally buried needs they feel the film would fulfill turn the idea into a serious project.The most prominent feature of "Humpday" is its amateur documentary film-making style. Shelton is filming like she's the camerawoman in the Real World house making a reality show. There's an impressive realism with the dialogue and the way the characters relate to one another and it only lets up in a few spots. The story does a great job convincing you that this could theoretically happen even though it never would. I don't think under any other set of circumstances other than the ones Shelton has imagined would something like this legitimately take place. Duplass, Leonard and Alycia Delmore as Ben's wife do their best to convince you otherwise. They really seem like legitimate people in real-life relationships.At many points in the film, Ben and Andrew address why they're doing this. It's an important question to the film and one that should also be asked of Shelton too. At times "Humpday" is supposed to be funny but there's a lot of it which is meant to be taken seriously. You start to wonder yourself -- namely if you're a straight man -- if you'd be able to go through with it which is one of the film's great strengths. At other times, you kind of wonder why the issue has been blown up this much in the first place.I think Shelton made this film because she wanted to explore the male bond and this was really the way to pull and push at it and manipulate it: by creating these circumstances. The film is surprisingly perceptive with some interesting insights into relationships but it gets a bit too hung up on two guys talking about having sex with each other and will they or won't they."Humpday" is an LGBT film in the sense that it comes from a very sexually open and progressive mindset. There are a couple women in the film for example, one played by Shelton in fact, that are in a relationship but one is into Andrew as well. In that sense LGBT characters are a significant part of the film, but they mostly add to the discussion of sexuality and relationships as seen through these two best friends. Lose any expectations that the poster art and brief summary provide and "Humpday" will leave you pleasantly surprised.~Steven CVisit my site http://moviemusereviews.com

valis1949 Two close friends (Ben, played by Mark Duplass, and Andrew, played by Joshua Leonard) grapple with the following dilemma. Can two straight men engage in gay sex, film it, and hope to win a prize at The HUMP! annual film festival in Seattle, Washington? HUMPDAY is a sly and witty examination of sexual attitudes which, at times, is as disconcerting as it is nearly hilarious. Ben is married, and he and his wife are about to start a family, while Andrew is a Free Spirit who sees himself as kind of a marginal player on the international art scene. One night at a party in a Free Love commune, the two men drunkenly come up with a possible brand-new approach to the Genre of Pornography. Why not have two straight men do a gay porn flic. This becomes the odd and unsettling conundrum for the movie. Is it possible for two straight men to engage in gay sex, or would the act itself preclude that they were gay at the outset? The viewer watches as Ben and Andrew squirm with the unstated (and frightening) query, am I gay, or closer truth, just exactly how straight am I? Maybe the real message of the film is that as much as we feel that we have completely settled on our sexual identity, the true nature of sex might be much more fluid. Personal sexual attitudes are not really laws which are set in stone, but maybe they are just guidelines which are subject to change and reinvention as circumstances change. The film doesn't resolve the issue, but it certainly presents a dizzying collection of cringe inducing questions which highlight this quandary. HUMPDAY could be seen as a possible companion piece to the wonderfully disquieting film, CHUCK AND BUCK.