I can't say that I'm a huge connoisseur of the mumblecore films and from the batch that I have seen so far, Lynn Shelton's Humpday is easily one of the better films to emerge from the grouping of low budget talkies. I must say I didn't care much for this cinematic trend and perhaps as an end of film festival snack it was filling enough for someone whose brain needed some simple matter but if I had a larger appetite the one note idea is stretched out so thin that I'd normally be left cranky and irritated.
Shelton (see pic) herself was a secondary character, but this is a bro film featuring a director/actor who is slowly moving away from the mumblecore crowd in Mark Duplass and a bearded happy-go-lucky Joshua Leonard (see pic below) who have a good natural chemistry and can for the most part keep a straight face.
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