The 24th Day

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 summary
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 AIDS 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 AIDS virus, Tom vows to kill Dan. If the results are negative, Tom agrees to release Dan unharmed.

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.