HUMPDAY 2.5*** Generally; 3.0*** for a realistic Indie film.

No, this is not a movie about the slangy workday reference to Wednesday as being the “over-the-hump” day for the workweek.

No, this is, instead, a movie about two straight guys who decide to make a porno film where they are the ones having intercourse with each other.
Do I have your attention now !!!

Two college friends, Andrew and Ben, get together years after college. Ben has settled down and is happily married to Anna. Andrew is single and somewhat wild. During a drunken night with other revelers goading them on, Andrew and Ben brazenly agree that they'll make an “art” film of themselves “doing it” for entry in the Seattle “Humpfest” film festival. The next day after they’ve sobered up, each hopes the other will back out of the idea, and they warily circle each other in the days that follow right up until the planned “event” still looking for a way out. Ben, in particular, smarts against Andrew's condescending attitude about the “white-picket-fence” life in which Ben and Anna live. Andrew, on the other hand, resents Ben’s implication that Andrew is nothing but a rolling tumbleweed, a life without a purpose. How do things work out? Do they go through with it. What about Anna, the wife. Well, I'm not going to tell you.
This film is surprisingly perceptive about male relationships/friendships, and what makes this even more surprising is that it comes from female screenwriter/director Lynn Shelton.
Most people will feel uncomfortable watching this movie (I surely did), but, as it turns out, that is the whole point. We are uncomfortable because the characters are very uncomfortable. And It's hard to watch people struggle with difficult situations like this, but it is how they work it out that makes it all worthwhile.
Obviously, this movie is not intended for the easily offended. Or, in fact, for most audiences. But, it is a rare experience…. an Indie reality movie that is both interesting and a whole lot weird. "Humpday" is rated R and features strong sexual language and frank sex talk, simulated sex (both straight and gay) with some nudity, and other derogatory language.
This is fairly strong stuff and not for the weak at heart or for high brows.
Clark