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Stress Positions // NOW >> THEN
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Set in Brooklyn, NY, during the unprecedented summer of 2020, this film explores the emotional entanglements driving the character’s behaviors and responses to the COVID crisis. Director Theda Hammel skillfully captures the mood of that time period in this pandemic comedy, filmed without any on-screen Zoom footage.
ON SCREEN: Stress Positions
2024. Directed by Theda Hammel. Runtime: 95 minutes. Not Rated.
Terry Goon (John Early) is keeping strict quarantine in his ex-husband’s Brooklyn brownstone while caring for his nephew Bahlul, a 19-year-old model from Morocco, bedridden after an electric scooter accident. Unfortunately for Terry, everyone in his life wants to meet the model. The pack of them — including his reckless and outspoken best friend Karla (played by director/writer Theda Hammel) — descend on the dilapidated house, crowding the model, breaking Terry’s cherished rules, and putting his barely formed political convictions to the test.