Stress Positions

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Stress Positions

2024

1h 35m

Comedy

Drama

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Terry Goon is keeping strict quarantine in his ex-husband's Brooklyn brownstone while caring for his nephew -- a 19-year-old model from Morocco named Bahlul -- bedridden in a full leg cast after an electric scooter accident. Unfortunately for Terry, everyone in his life wants to meet the model.

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Critics Consensus

Stress Positions plays on familiar seriocomic tropes with sporadic verve, although the characters are occasionally more interesting than the story they're being used to tell.

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

AWFJ.org

06/11/2024

Stress Positions feels like a movie that is orchestrated as much as directed and Hammel’s intuitive grasp on the rhythms of everyday conversation are a thing of wonder, granting the film an extraordinary energy and almost palpable freshness

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Ty Burr

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04/26/2024

2.5/4

The cast is enthusiastic and often very funny, and, as a filmmaker, Hammel is one to watch.

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Peter Sobczynski

RogerEbert.com

04/19/2024

2/4

If the film concentrated more on this and less on the increasingly chaotic proceedings on display, it might have become more than an endless litany of smug obnoxiousness.

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Grace Byron

Screen Slate

Aug 13

Hammel is pulling on a lot of threads throughout the film, but in the end she manages a daring détente.

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David Bax

Battleship Pretension

Sep 2

All I know is I want more from Hammel as soon as possible.

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Codie Allen

Geek Vibes Nation

07/20/2025

7/10

Despite its imperfections, Stress Positions shines as one of the standout films of the COVID era. It not only entertains but also underscores the significance of representation.

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Kalissa H

@kali_416 07/10/2025

This movie had no business being that entertaining

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The H

@RT75285738 02/19/2025

Movie during lockdown covid times, neat ! This is one of those movies just about life & how different people live, but it wasn't boring or dull, the dialogue & characters were funny & I was laughing throughout even though I didn't necessary like any of them. It did a good job showcasing why the pandemic took so much longer in the US vs other countries because nobody was following the distance rule or masks seriously here like they should've been.

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Other S

@RT04905297 12/24/2024

Truly loved this film!

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Michael V

@RT01374702 12/20/2024

Stress Positions is a 2024 American comedy drama film directed by Theda Hammel (in her feature directorial debut) 🍿 Can’t recommend it. Oof, this isn’t good 🙁 Probably give it a miss 👎🏼 S Terry Goon is keeping strict quarantine in his ex-husband’s Brooklyn brownstone while caring for his nephew — a 19-year-old model from Morocco named Bahlul — bedridden in a full leg cast after an electric scooter accident. Unfortunately for Terry, everyone in his life wants to meet the model.

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Siarl W

@RT09741224 12/11/2024

Ridiculous. I hated it.

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Emma S

@RT36379315 10/23/2024

This was the worst movie I have ever seen. I found it to be simultaneously boring, disturbing, meaningless with pathetic acting. I honestly almost walked out several times but then began to delight in just how awful it was.

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Synopsis

Terry Goon is keeping strict quarantine in his ex-husband's Brooklyn brownstone while caring for his nephew -- a 19-year-old model from Morocco named Bahlul -- bedridden in a full leg cast after an electric scooter accident. Unfortunately for Terry, everyone in his life wants to meet the model.

Director: Theda Hammel
Producer: Brad Becker-Parton, John Early, Stephanie Roush, Allie Jane Compton, Greg Nobile
Screenwriter: Theda Hammel
Distributor: NEON
Production Co: Neon, Roller Studios, Seaview Productions
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 19, 2024, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA): $101.7K
Runtime: 1h 35m

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