Humpday is a comedy film that demonstrates what can happen when two friends take a dare too far. When college buddies Ben (Mark Duplass) and Andrew (Joshua Leonard) meet up a decade after graduation they try to reconnect after choosing different paths. Ben has the steady job, wife and a home while artist Andrew has been globe-hopping. Falling back into their own pattern of one-upsmanship, they dare each other to enter a pornography contest but will they break the taboo and have on-camera sex with each other?*Sundance 2009: Humpday Overview
Quotes
- "Straight guys can be funny fellows. Don't get me wrong, I love 'em to death, but the way they seem capable of turning any situation into a game of one-upmanship–even with their closest buddies–can be a pretty awesome spectacle. Humpday takes this syndrome of hetero guy competitiveness to a new, ironic extreme: two straight friends outduding each other by attempting to do each other."—Lynn SheltonMTV: Sundance Bromance Blossoms (January 13, 2009)
- "Issues of sexual orientation and gender politics are front and centre in three movies receiving advance buzz: Lynn Shelton's Humpday, in which two supposedly straight male friends accept a dare to have sex together on camera; John Krasinski's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, a dark comedy billed as a "caustic exploration of the hideous nature of men"; and Glenn Ficarra's and John Requa's I Love You Phillip Morris, in which Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor find comfort and crazy romance in each other's embrace."—The StarThe Star: The Sun May be Setting on the Indie Revolution (January 15, 2009)
Cast
- Mark Duplass as Ben
- Joshua Leonard as Andrew
- Alycia Delmore as Anna
- Lynn Shelton as Monica
- Trina Willard as Lily