Product Details

• Actors: Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard, Alycia Delmore
• Directors: Lynn Shelton
• Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Dubbed: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Magnolia Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: November 17, 2009
• Run Time: 94 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002LBKDZ8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #146,823 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• Learn more about "Humpday" on IMDb

Editorial Reviews

It's been a decade since Ben (Duplass) and Andrew (Leonard)
were college bad boys. Ben is living contently with a good job and a great wife, until his old buddy Andrew shows up on his doorstep late one night. Andrew, who lives as a vagabond artist, invites Ben out to a wild party. Excessive drinking
combined with the irrational need to oneup each other, leads to a mutual dare that locks them into entering an
amateur porn contest together.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Slow But Good Movie - Surprisingly Good January 24, 2011

By Daniel G. Lebryk TOP 50 REVIEWER

Format:DVD

It's all about expectations, and I had a very different set of expectations going into this film that were turned upside down and made the film a bit better than the film I was expecting.

From the trailer and description, I thought this was going to be a movie about two guys trying to make a pornographic film. I was pleasantly surprised to discover this was wrong, in fact there isn't any nudity, and the film is not at all about pornography.

Ben is a seemingly normal nice guy newly married to the lovely Anna. One normal middle class night, they are awoken by Ben's college friend, the Bohemian Andrew. Andrew represents the life that Ben secretly still wants no responsibilities; do whatever he wants with whoever he wants whenever he wants. The first half of the film was all about tempting Ben away from a normal middle class married life.

This film is full of surprises and discovery. The first half was nicely paced and I could see the conflict Ben was feeling. Andrew was light and breezy; he was a crazy fun mad man from college. As the second act played out, Ben became annoying, overanalyzing everything; and Andrew slipped into a more normal melodramatic character. Anna rose up as a very strong wonderful character, who changed as a result of the dramatic conflict she felt as she uncovered Ben's lies.

The part that I find amazing about this film is that there was virtually no script. According to the making of featurette, the actors improvised the entire film. The fact that the film was coherent and played so well dramatically is a big credit to the director and actors. The annoying part of the film was the whole question of will they or won't they? In the very last act, that question was asked way too many times....

This is an extremely low budget film. It appears to be a labor of love for the director Lynn Shelton. From my perspective, I think this film was less about relationships with the same gender, but more about being honest and envying what others have.

After watching the making of featurettte, it is amazing that this film holds together as well as it does. The production qualities are pretty good.

The film is rated R due to the subject matter and strong language. I don't recall any nudity in the film. And there certainly is no violence. For a parent that knows their child well, this film could be viewed by slightly younger viewers than the R rating says.

The DVD is full of some excellent special features. I very rarely think that the deleted scenes should be included in the film. However, I think each of those scenes were better than what ended up in the film. The making of featurette is a must watch film. The context of how and why this film was made is excellent.

This is not a film for everyone. I enjoyed it very much. If Lynn Shelton had cut out a few of the "should we" or "shouldn't we" moments and added the deleted scenes, I would have enjoyed the film more. For me, this was a thought provoking film. Read more ›

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Well, I thought it was funny December 2, 2010

By Brad Smith

Format:DVD

The hetero male's fear of being thought gay is explored here as two college buddies get the bright idea to make an art porn film of themselves. Only they chicken out, of course. The wife does a great job, and the dialogue is really quite witty, while the two male leads get their expressions just right. No belly laughs. I guess you could call it a comedy of manners. Worth a watch.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Good concept. Bad execution December 2, 2009

By J. Melby

Format:DVD

When I first heard about this movie in the trades, I slapped my hand on my head and thought 'Why didn't I think of that?' and rued that such a simple but brilliant angle escaped my notice. Then I saw it, and I learned that even a good idea can be done badly.

The movie itself, technically, is fine. Good camera work, lighting and sound. The acting? Not my style, but it worked and felt organic to the story. My problem was that there really wasnt much of a story here. One friend Ben, is married happily and on the fast track to yuppy-dom while Andrew, a globe trotting hippie wannabe, lands in town and sucks Ben into his hippy commune world where they make a drunken agreement to make a porno featuring the two of them having sex.

Okay. Now what? The answer: Nothing. The stakes are never raised. The two men are never locked into their clandestine rendez-vous by anything more than a dare made among a bunch of drunk and toasted hippsters who probably don't remember the night to begin with. It turns into a macho posturing game of chicken to see who blinks first and neither does, despite the clear fact that they both don't want to do it, but Yuppy Ben needs to prove he's still cool and Andrew has to prove to Ben, and himself, he's also cool. The situation culminates in a moment of truth between Ben, Andrew and Ben's wife that feels torn from the pages of any script from Three's Comapany.

I find it insulting that people think you can just 'go gay', like it's a choice or something you can switch on or off. It's not and this movie oversimplifies something far more complex. Which is sad. This movie could have been the first half of a bigger story that delved deeper (and for one moment, I thought it actually might have.) but it only scratched the surface.... It felt to me the filmmakers came too close to a truth and were scared or freaked by it and jumped ship abruptly, which would explain the sloppy and disjointed ending. This movie could have been so much more, but the filmmakers, much like the two leads, didn't want to go all the way. Read more ›

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't. Stop. Don't! Stop! No, just stop. November 24, 2009

A Kid's Review

Format:DVD

Stupid and pointless. These manly men hem and haw over should they or shouldn't they - and clearly from the get-go the answer is no. In fact - the wife should just dump both of them and change the locks. But then we'd miss all the hair tugging, face rubbing, circularly unlogical discourse and terribly heavy thinking over to have sex or not. Down to the essential "this is the most terrifying thing we've over done in our lives." Really? A sexual Everest or an elephant in the room... whichever, neither wants to be mounted. The only true exposing moment comes right at the close... when the one friend is sitting in the hotel room by himself playing back the evening which was taped on a camcorder.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars I wish i could give less than 1 star December 18, 2011

By Reality Crafted

Format:Amazon Instant Video

This is about the most useless and unentertaining movie I have ever seen. It opens with and interesting premise and goes absoultely nowhere... slowly.

I have rarely watched a movie without finding something redeeming. This is one of those times.

1.0 out of 5 stars bad acting June 12, 2013

By Ultimix

Format:Amazon Instant Video

Bad acting for both guys.. especially the dude who's married and about to throw away a great marriage to a wonderful woman to make a gay porn with his college best friend (who just shows up at 2am at the couples house) and the guys hadn't seen each other in 10+ years since college graduation.

However, the married guy is selling the idea to himself of making an artistic porn with his male college friend. Its like he has to prove he's able to. Nothing to prove but to turn this bad movie off when the ridiculous gets even more ridiculous and weird.