The USC School of Cinematic Arts and Magnolia Pictures
invite you and a guest to a special preview screening of

HUMPDAY

Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall


FREE ADMISSION. OPEN TO ALL.

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It's been a decade since Ben (Duplass) and Andrew (Leonard) were the bad boys of their college campus. Ben has settled down and found a job, wife and home. Andrew took the alternate route as a vagabond artist, skipping the globe from Chiapas to Cambodia. When Andrew shows up unannounced on Ben's doorstep, they easily fall back into their old dynamic of macho one-upmanship. Late into the night at a wild party, the two find themselves locked in a mutual dare: to enter an amateur porn contest together. But what kind of boundary-breaking, envelope-pushing porn can two straight dudes make? 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? And more importantly, who will tell Anna (Delmore), Ben's wife?

Writer/director Lynn Shelton, director of My Effortless Brilliance and recipient of the "Someone to Watch Award" at the 2009 Independent Spirit Awards, expertly mines the biggest ironies of the male ego to hilarious effect. Humpday is a buddy movie gone wild.

35mm print provided courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.

Not Rated. Running time: 95 minutes.

Opens in Los Angeles on Friday, July 17, 2009.

To learn more about the film and to view the trailer, click here.

Mark Duplass and his brother Jay recently made a film called The Puffy Chair, one of the breakout hits from the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. The film, which also stars Mark, won the Audience Award at SXSW 2005 and was nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards. It was released theatrically by Roadside Attractions and Netflix in 2006 and is now available on DVD and Showtime. Mark and Jay first made a name for themselves with a string of award-winning short films, including This is John and Scrabble, which each premiered at Sundance, in 2003 and 2004, respectively. The Duplass Brothers are currently writing and directing films for both Universal and Fox Searchlight and have sold The Trail, a television show co-produced with The Weitz Brothers, to NBC. Their newest feature, Baghead, was picked up by Sony Pictures Classics at Sundance 2008 and released in July 2008. Mark can also be seen as the lead actor in the Seattle-shot comedy True Adolescents and the new rotoscoped animated feature film Mars. Both films are currently in post-production. 

This June through August, 2009, the SCA Alumni Screening Series will host a wide array of film screenings and filmmaker Q&As, highlighting new blockbuster and independent American films, international and documentary features and recent work by our SCA Alumni. These screenings will be hosted in various SCA venues, including Norris Cinema Theatre, as well as SCA 108 and SCA 110. All screenings are free to the public but will require an electronic reservation, which can be made through the website for each individual screening. Many screenings will be overbooked to ensure that capacity is met in the theater. Some screenings will be run from digital sources.