Sentences with phrase «comedy humpday»
Not exact matches
After a couple of gimmicky transgressive comedies (Humpday and Your Sister's Sister), writer - director Lynn Shelton takes a more observant approach this time.
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Featuring Aubrey Plaza (Funny People), Mark Duplass (Humpday), and «New Girl» star Jake M. Johnson, this has all the makings of a quirky comedy, even if there ends up not actually being any time traveling in the film.
She's been lumped into the fast and loose mumblecore movement with organic, naturalistic comedies like «Humpday,» but she's also matured well beyond that delineation with the observational exploration of family and lovers in the insightful, sharp and keen, «Your Sister's Sister.»
Shelton got her start making intelligent, funny comedies without the safety net of a screenplay; films like Humpday and Your Sister's Sister proved that «entirely improvised» didn't have to be a red flag.
The success of Shelton» 2009 film Humpday, a comedy of sexual awakening starring Mark Duplass and Joshua Leonard, proved her style could cross over to general audiences, and after directing episodes of Mad Men and New Girl, Shelton's confidence in her abilities rose along with her status in the industry.
Yes, it's a bromantic comedy, to borrow the tag from Lynn Shelton's Humpday, but it's also a comedy about friendship and what it means.
Notable credits include: Alexander Lehmann's romantic drama Blue Jay, Lynn Shelton's Gotham - award winning Your Sister's Sister, Charlie McDowell's sci - fi romance The One I Love, Patrick Brice's horror - comedy Creep (along with its follow - up, Creep 2), Colin Trevorrow's Independent Spirit award - winning Safety Not Guaranteed, the Sundance sensation Humpday and Katherine Bigelow's Oscar - winning Zero Dark Thirty.