![]() It also stars one of the leading lights of the mumblecore fraternity: Mark Duplass, co-writer and co-director with brother Jay Duplass of Humpday, like Shelton's previous work, is part of the American indie movement known as "mumblecore." Like other films in the genre, it's super-low budget, has a lo-fi aesthetic, an abundance of improvised chat and a focus on the personal relationships of recent college grads. Then, almost poignantly, it finally emerges as the possible fulfilment of the two friends' long-held yearnings (that are not, just to be clear, for the gentle touch of each other's flesh). ![]() What is hatched as a drunken notion at a bohemian party becomes a macho dare while shooting hoops as a hangover cure the morning after. But the friends' erotic art film idea (just two "straight dudes" getting it on) evolves so naturally it never feels outrageous. ![]() Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008), which gets predictably cuddly toward the end. Humpday - with its "end of gay" reverberations - certainly sounds more provocative than Kevin Smith's 'Humpday," the slang term working stiffs use for Wednesday, takes on a whole new meaning in Seattle filmmaker Lynn Shelton's third feature, a comedy in which two recently reunited college pals, both straight males, decide to make - and star - in an amateur gay porn film. Starring Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard, Alycia Delmore, Lynn Shelton and Trina Willard.
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