IFFBoston Screening Series
Humpday
Directed by: Lynn Shelton
Starring: Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard, and Alycia Delmore
Tuesday, June 30 at 7pm
Somerville Theatre - 55 Davis Square
Director Lynn Shelton will appear in person for a Q&A immediately after the screening
It’s been a decade since Ben (Mark Duplass; THE PUFFY CHAIR, IFFBoston 2006) and Andrew (Joshua Leonard) 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 macho one-upmanship. Late into the night at a wild party, the two find themselves locked in a mutual dare: to enter an amateur porn contest together. But what kind of boundary-breaking, envelope pushing porn can two straight dudes make? After the booze and “big talk” run out, only one idea remains—they will have sex together...on camera. It’s not gay; it’s beyond gay. It’s not porn; it’s art. But how exactly will it work? And more importantly, who will tell Anna (Alycia Delmore), Ben’s wife?
Writer/director Lynn Shelton, director of MY EFFORTLESS BRILLIANCE (IFFBoston 2008) and recipient of the “Someone to Watch Award” at the 2009 Independent Spirit Awards, expertly mines the biggest ironies of the male ego to hilarious effect. HUMPDAY is a buddy movie gone wild.
