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...takes place at a casual garden party, one of the most skillfully edited scenes in the movie. Baumbach playfully plucks out Greenberg's main impressions of the party and stitches them together out of chronological order. First, Greenberg gets insulted, or so he thinks, by an old friend Eric (Humpday's Mark Duplass) whom he used to be in a band with until their big break was squashed by Greenberg's refusal to sign a record contract. Then he hears Beth is recently separated. A lightbulb goes on in his head - she might be interested in him again...
Melrose Place • despite the repellent ad campaign for, Tuesday turns out, after all, not to be the new Humpday...
...Humpday is that movie: the one about a pair of guy friends who decide they're going to make an "artistic" pornographic movie, starring themselves as two straight guys having sex. If those words make you feel the compulsion to go check your fantasy-baseball status or Google some images of Gisele Bündchen in underwear rather than read on, please, stay with me. No heterosexual males were compromised in the making of this movie, nor is there any actual pornography in Humpday. This Sundance prizewinner from director Lynn Shelton is an undeniably titillating movie, but ultimately, its provocation...
...just mild horror but consternation over her own reaction. She knows she's too cool to be ruffled and jealous, but she can't help herself. Thanks to boldly truthful moments like this one, along with highly naturalistic and often hilarious dialogue and a trio of appealing co-stars, Humpday quickly transcends its own gimmick. (See the top 10 movie gimmicks...
...constantly to make contact. Watching them in an angry wrestling match after a competitive basketball game, you start to think that maybe they should make out, crazy as it seems. That's the power of this subversive movie; it challenges us as much as it challenges its own characters. Humpday makes you squirm and think, in the best possible...
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