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Stress Positions? Yes, it’s a pandemic movie—set in the early days of our nationwide quarantine.But don’t let that deter you from watching one of the sharpest, funniest, queerest movies of the year. While a number of film and TV projects popped up in the wake of COVID-19‘s arrival in the States, attempting to “capture our collective moment” to mixed-to-negative results, Stress Positions merely uses it as a backdrop for a wild farce that brilliantly blends biting satire with slapstick comedy and one of the most shockingly hilarious sight gags you’ll see all year.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.From writer-director Theda Hammel—best known as on of the co-hosts of the absolutely essential NYMPHOWARS podcast—the film follows Brooklynite Terry Goon (John Early, scene-stealer of Search Party and just about everything else he’s been in) who is attempting a strict quarantine in his ex-husband’s dilapidated brownstone apartment.Living with Terry is his nephew, Bahlul, a gorgeous 19-year-old model originally from Morocco, who is bedridden after an accident left in a full-length leg cast.