Tuesday, July 21, 2009 8:30AM - By Kara
Humpday is the most recent film by writer/director, Lynn Shelton, starring Mark Duplass and Joshua Leonard. Although they advertise this movie like a slapstick comedy about two straight guys who make a porn together and then deal with the aftermath, the film is nothing like that. This film is far more intelligent than what you would expect from a l bro-ish comedy about two male friends who come up with the wacky idea of having sex for a porn convention to show how masculine they are. IN the end, it was an intelligent film about two guys discovering who they really are.
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Monday, July 20, 2009 12:41PM - By Kara
Lynn Shelton‘s new movie, Humpday, has been generating quite a bit of buzz due to it’s interesting title and even more unique subject matter. The movie is about two straight male friends who decide to make a porn together in order to prove something to themselves. After talking with Lynn Shelton, and hearing her reasons for making this film I liked it all the more.
In the interview, Lynn talked about how she came up with the idea of two straight friends having sex, writing the script with the Mark Duplass and Joshua Leonard, why she used such an non-traditional method of filming, and then slippped into the interview what her porn name is…
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 11:00AM - By Mali Elfman
Humpday post for hump day! Get it? Oh yeah, I’m clever. This movie came across my inbox and I thought I just had to share it with you.
From the 2009 Independent Spirit Awards writer/director Lynn Shelton comes a movie is about two college friends, Ben (Mark Duplass) and Andrew (Joshua Leonard) who were best friends and the bad boys of their college campus. Ten years later have Ben has settled for a job, a wife, and home, while Andrew spends his days as a vagabond artist, skipping the globe from Chiapas to Cambodia.
Late into the night at a wild party, the two find themselves locked in a mutual dare: to enter an amateur porn contest… together. With two slightly pudgy men who continue to try to convince one another that they are not gay, they somehow manage to to push forward on the dare. 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?
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