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Humpday Gets Bromance Right

Winning film 'makes you squirm and think'

By Matt Cantor, Newser Staff

Posted Jul 10, 2009 10:12 AM CDT

(Newser) – Critics are applauding Humpday, a bromance about two old friends reunited who decide to make an “art” film in which they’ll sleep together—a plan that makes for no end of awkwardness.

“To guys everywhere: Humpday has your number,” writes Stephen Holden in the New York Times. “The movie’s unblinking observation of a friendship put to the test is amused, queasy making, kindhearted and unfailingly truthful.”

“Humpday makes you squirm and think, in the best possible way,” observes Mary Pols in Time. It’s “undeniably titillating,” with “highly naturalistic and often hilarious dialogue and a trio of appealing co-stars."
David Edelstein of New York calls Humpday a “marvelous chamber comedy” that “butts up against the same sort of taboos as Brüno, and in its fumbling, semi-improvised way,” is “equally hilarious and even more subversive.”

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In this image released by the Sundance Institute, Mark Duplass, left, and Joshua Leonard are shown in a scene from "Humpday." (AP Photo/Sundance Institute)

Director Lynn Shelton accepts the award for Special Jury Prize: US Dramatic for "Humpday" during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer)

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Humpday Gets Bromance Right

Winning film 'makes you squirm and think'