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In Theaters Now
- 2024
- Neon
- 1 h 35 m
- 2024
- Neon
- 1 h 35 m
Summary 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.
Written By: Faheem Ali
In Theaters Now
- 2024
- Neon
- 1 h 35 m
- 2024
- Neon
- 1 h 35 m
Stress Positions
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Summary 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.
Written By: Faheem Ali
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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62% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
38% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
62
62% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
38% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
In its wryly amusing self-awareness at all turns, the film actively and relentlessly lampoons the very language and gesturing we all affect in trying to broach the political maelstrom of identity politics.
In real life, anyone would hate to spend even a few minutes in their company. Yet in Hammel’s hands, they become easy to enjoy and laugh at while completely understanding their full awful personalities.
The film is an insightful look at modern discontent and the pandemonium that it breeds.
Amid Hammel’s acid-tongued approach and jaundiced eye, there’s a lot of intriguing potential; after all, cinema that imperfectly confronts is oftentimes more interesting than comfortable competence.
The movie has its funny moments, and even some halfway-poignant ones, but it occasionally gives one the feeling of watching a bawdy New York-set sitcom and listening to a segment of “This American Life” at the same time.
Its scrappiness is what brings the charm à la the early work of Madeleine Olnek. Random attempts at depth detract from the final product rather than add to it.
While Hammel might be aiming for an ensemble comedy, Stress Positions lacks focus; the director can’t seem to decide who should be the heart of her shapeless narrative, a feeling compounded by dueling voiceovers.
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Production Company
Neon,
Roller Studios,
Seaview Productions
Release Date Apr 19, 2024
Duration 1 h 35 m
Genres
Awards
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations