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  • 2009
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2009
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 34 m

Summary It’s been a decade since Ben and Andrew 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 vagabond artist, skipping the globe from Chiapas to Cambodia. When Andrew shows up unannounced on Ben’s doorstep, they easily fall back into their old dynamic of mac...

Directed By: Lynn Shelton

Written By: Lynn Shelton

  • 2009
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2009
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 34 m

Humpday

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 25 Critic Reviews
74
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
6.4
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Summary It’s been a decade since Ben and Andrew 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 vagabond artist, skipping the globe from Chiapas to Cambodia. When Andrew shows up unannounced on Ben’s doorstep, they easily fall back into their old dynamic of mac...

Directed By: Lynn Shelton

Written By: Lynn Shelton

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 25 Critic Reviews
74
88% Positive
22 Reviews
8% Mixed
2 Reviews
4% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 25 Critic Reviews
74
88% Positive
22 Reviews
8% Mixed
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4% Negative
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100
Humpday succeeds, often beautifully, by grounding its risque premise in the awkwardness and humor of real people trying their damnedest to communicate. A lot.
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90
The movie’s unblinking observation of a friendship put to the test is amused, queasy making, kindhearted and unfailingly truthful.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
80
Unlike a lot of institutional raunch in today's comedy, Humpday finds laughs out of what is rarely made explicit between buddies.
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80
Lynn Shelton's marvelous chamber comedy Humpday butts up against the same sort of taboos as "Brüno," and in its fumbling, semi-improvised way, it’s equally hilarious and even more subversive.
By David Edelstein FULL REVIEW
75
The movie does open up a lot of heretofore vacuum-sealed cans of worms. Does sex represent a sort of grand completeness that men secretly yearn for in their friendships?
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67
As for that central question: Yep, it’s art, all right. One only wishes they’d gotten down to the business of it sooner.
By Kimberley Jones FULL REVIEW
25
Few kinds of art are more boring than the insistently transgressive, and few movies are more boring than Humpday.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
6.4
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13% Mixed
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13% Mixed
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Production Company Magnolia Pictures, Seashel Pictures
Release Date Jul 10, 2009
Duration 1 h 34 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Sometimes male bonding can be taken a little too far.
Website http://www.humpdayfilm.com/
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Awards

Gijón International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Deauville Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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