WATCH: Everyone wants to get their hands on the model in one of the queerest movies of the year (so far)
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.
Unfortunately for Terry, everyone wants to come over and meet the model.Bahlul, by the way, is played by real-life model Qaher Harhash in his debut acting role, and it’s a real casting coup because, well, Harhash is gorgeous.
Who wouldn’t want to meet him?A post shared by قاهر (@qaherhar)Like a true bedroom farce, Terry’s apartment becomes a revolving door of eccentric characters—against his better judgment.
