Humpday

Just two straight dudes makin’ gay porn. What? It’s an art project. Ten years or so after they went to college together, Andrew (Joshua Leonard) is a bohemian drifter, and Ben (Mark Duplass) owns a happy middle-class Seattle-area home. And now, to the dismay of Ben’s wife, Anna (Alycia Delmore), a perfect little storm of impromptu reunion, wine, weed and an impending amateur porn festival has stirred up the man-boys’ aggro angst. Positioned as a middlebrow, hipster subversion of Zack and Miri Make a Porno, or a subtle counterforce to the blunt object that is Brüno, writer-director Lynn Shelton’s film could be so much crueler than it is; Shelton has everything she needs for a withering satire of 30-something bromantic navel-gazing. But she also has a conscience and wisdom enough to explore not just the spectrum of male sexual proclivity, but the historically rather richer dramatic subject of male pride.