Stress Positions 2024
Sinopsis
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.
Cast
- John Early as Terry Goon
- Qaher Harhash as Bahlul, Terry’s nephew
- Elizabeth Dement as Abigail, Terry’s sister and Bahlul’s mother
- Theda Hammel as Karla, Terry’s best friend
- Amy Zimmer as Vanessa, Karla’s girlfriend
- Rebecca F. Wright as Coco, Terry’s neighbor
- Faheem Ali as Ronald, a Grubhub worker
- Gordon Landenberger as Friendly Neighborhood Lunatic
- Elias Abawi as Lyft Driver
- John Roberts as Leo
- Davidson Obennebo as Hamadou
- Tarek Ziad as Tarek
- Joe Van O as Photographer
- Macy Rodman as Blonde Model
- Louisa Judge as Blonde Young Woman
Review
Ever since I had to watch the screener off my phone on a Sunday morning for a freelance assignment at Xtra Magazine, I couldn’t stop thinking about Theda Hammel’s Stress Positions an unequalable thought-provoking, Millennial American movie about the realest, worst queers ever. Initially, I flipped out over her backdrop being peak-COVID 2020 because if I were to cover one more COVID-19 movie, that would’ve been my 13th reason why. Yet, unlike the myriad of COVID-era movies I’ve covered over the last several years, Hammel employed it to say something about our culture that nobody else dared to: Millennial liberals aren’t as progressive as they think they are. She had more to say about modern America than Alex Garland’s Civil War did.
