The 24th Day
by Tony Piccirillo
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Actor: Barry Papick, Charlie Corrado, James Marsden, Scott Speedman, Sof?a VergaraDirector: Tony Piccirillo
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-08-31
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of The 24th Day
Movie Review: Two Lives Colliding (Messily)
Summary: 4 Stars
I ordered this film, sight unseen from Amazon, and was more than a little apprehensive about it's quality, given the abundance of really bad gay- themed films that have shown up at our local art house/gay cinema in the past few years. In fact, the venue really hardly qualifies as a gay cinema at all anymore because the owners have (wisely) opted to screen better-made independent and foreign films dealing with other subjects, or mainstream fare appealing to a broader audience. If "The 24th Day" played here, I somehow managed to miss it, which is too bad, because it's really a pretty good film. Like other reviewers here have stated, it is more like a filmed play, so if you don't enjoy going to the theater and watching a dark drama unfold onstage, you're probably not going to enjoy "The 24th Day". James Marsden stars as Dan, a good looking stud on the make in a large American city (presumably Philadelphia). Out for a night on the town with his female roommate, he winds up going home with a seemingly shy and naive young man named Tom. He soon comes to regret this decision after he finds himself handcuffed, gagged, and bound to a chair in Tom's living room. Tom accuses Dan of infecting him with the HIV virus during a drunken, unsafe tryst 5 years earlier. He is having Dan's blood tested and if the results come back positive for the AIDS virus, Tom intends to make Dan pay with his own life. The story turns into a suspenseful field day for the very talented actors as each tries to get the best of the other in an intensifying game of life and death.
I liked the film a lot. The production values are high, and it is well-written and filmed. The script has some unexpected twists, and as I stated above, the performances are excellent. James Marsden convincingly goes from smug and patronizing, to angry and afraid as the seriousness of his dilemma sinks in; Scott Speedman is equally dynamic as a man whose sanity seems to grow more precarious with every passing frame of film. If I have any complaint, it would be that I found the ending somewhat contrived and unconvincing. However, the ending wasn't so totally outside the realm of possibility as to negate the rest of the film, so that's saying a lot. I would definitely recommend this film to patient and open-minded moviegoers.
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