Stress Positions

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1 hr. 35 min.

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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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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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Theda Hammel

Director

John Early

Terry Goon

Theda Hammel

Karla

Qaher Harhash

Bahlul

Amy Zimmer

Vanessa

Faheem Ali

Ronald

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

Rated: 2.5/4

Apr 26, 2024

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Peter Sobczynski

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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.

Rated: 2/4

Apr 19, 2024

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Lisa Kennedy

New York Times

If some of the points seem muddy, the filmmaking is expressive and deliberate. With shimmer, shadow and verve, “Stress Positions” captures the often hallucinatory pandemonium wrought by that “long-ago” moment.

Apr 19, 2024

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Steven Prokopy

Third Coast Review

Nerves become frayed, but there’s a support system of friends, allies and collaborators that is so distinct and mostly reliable—until you throw a hot new male model into the mix; then all bets are off.

Rated: 2.5/4

Apr 27, 2024

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Carla Hay

Culture Mix

Stress Positions is the type of aimless and smug indie comedy that exists so the movie's characters can aggravate each other and annoy viewers. The movie's diverse LGBTQ representation deserves better than this incoherent story.

Apr 26, 2024

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Nora Lee Mandel

Maven's Nest

Creator/co-star Theda Hammel brings hilarious Marx Brothers style to a gay “party house” Brooklyn brownstone during the 2020 COVID Pandemic with many satirical barbs, including self-deprecating jokes.

Rated: 7/10

Apr 25, 2024

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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
Executive Producer: Tom Quinn, Jeff Deutchman, Mason Speta
Screenwriter: Theda Hammel
Distributor: NEON
Production Co: Neon, Seaview Productions, Roller Studios
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 19, 2024, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA): $29.9K