The 24th Day

Infobox_Film
name=The 24th Day


caption=DVD cover
director=Tony Piccirillo
producer=Nick Stagliano
Liliana Lovell
writer=Tony Piccirillo (play)
starring=James Marsden
Scott Speedman
Sofía Vergara
music=Kevin Manthei
editing=Aaron Mackof
cinematography=J. Alan Hostetter
distributor=Warner Bros.
released=6 May, 2004
runtime=96 mins
language=English
country=United States
awards=
budget=
imdb_id=0246404
amg_id=1:307029

"The 24th Day" is a 2004 film starring Scott Speedman and James Marsden. The film is based on a play of the same name, written by Tony Piccirillo; he also directed the film.

Plot

Tom (Speedman) and Dan (Marsden) meet in a bar and then proceed to Tom's apartment together. While there, Dan realizes that he had been in that same apartment before. Five years earlier, Dan and Tom had had a one night stand there. According to Tom, that encounter with Dan was his first and only homosexual experience. Some years later, Tom's wife is found to be HIV positive. Despondent after receiving this diagnosis from her doctor, Tom's wife drives through a red traffic light and is killed in an ensuing collision. Subsequent to these events, medical tests reveal that Tom himself is also HIV positive. Tom blames himself for passing the HIV virus on to his wife and, in turn, he blames Dan for passing the virus on to him. Reasoning that Dan ultimately is to blame for his wife's death, Tom devises a plan to exact revenge. He holds Dan hostage and draws blood from him in order to conduct a test to determine Dan's HIV status. If Dan's test results are positive for the HIV virus, Tom vows to kill Dan. If the results are negative, Tom agrees to release Dan unharmed. In the end, Tom returns to the apartment and lets Dan go. As Dan is leaving Tom asks him when was the last time he was tested? A few moments later he reveals that Dan's test was in fact positive. He decided to let Dan go because he realized that his positive status was the result of his choices and he couldn't blame it on anyone else. The scene fades out with Dan standing there in shock and Tom resigned to what lies ahead.

Cast

* James Marsden as Dan
* Scott Speedman as Tom
* Sofía Vergara as Isabella
* Barry Papick as Mr. Lerner
* Charlie Corrado as Officer #1
* Jarvis W. George as Officer #2
* Scott Roman as Bartender
* Jeffrey Frost as Dan's Assistant
* Jona Harvey as Marla
* Thea Chaloner as Wife
* Brian Campbell as Blondie

DVD release

The region 1 DVD was released August 31 2004.

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