James Marsden & Scott Speedman Play GAY LOVERS - The 24th Day

OP, the movie is like 15 years old.

[quote] Anyone watch this movie? It's actually FREE on YouTube

No. Why? Do you want people to sign in, watch it and them comment so you can doxx them?

^^then

Don't get too excited about the "GAY LOVERS" thing, they don't even kiss or anything.

R2 you don't have to sign in AT ALL to watch. Just trying to start a conversation on the film

[quote] Don't get too excited about the "GAY LOVERS" thing, they don't even kiss or anything.

Then how does one of them get AIDS?

This originally done on stage with Noah Wyle & Peter Berg in the roles

Spoiler Alert!

This is fanfic rubbish, but; I like to imagine a continuation where Dan (Marsden) stays in Tom's (Speedman) apartment after finding out, processing his terror and grief in sympathetic company while also shedding off a bit of residual Stockholm. Tom is taken aback and unsure but sincerely wants to help Dan and make up for the hurt he's caused. After some weeks pass they come to a silent reconciliation and understanding, and end up in agreement to stick by and care for each other through any treatment. This arrangement proceeds in fits and starts and a year later culminates in them realising - in a surprising slowburn twist - that they're in love. Then they finally tenderly fuck on-screen like everyone wanted them to in the original film. And curtain.

Just watched it yesterday

[quote]Tom (Scott Speedman) and Dan (James 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 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, she drives through a red traffic light and is killed in an ensuing collision. Subsequent to these events, medical tests reveal that Tom is also HIV positive. Tom blames himself for passing HIV 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, keeping him bound and gagged to a chair in his apartment. He draws blood from Dan in order to conduct a test to determine Dan's HIV status. If Dan's test results are positive for HIV, 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 he had last been 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 which he couldn't blame on anyone else. The screen fades with Dan standing in Tom's doorway in shock.

Jesus this sounds depressing as fuck

Just heard about this movie. Fuck, Marsden and Speedman? I can’t wait to see them ban—

[QUOTE] Don't get too excited about the "GAY LOVERS" thing, they don't even kiss or anything.

Meh, pass.

R10 the film and the OG play were also turgid and depressing. What were you watching instead, love?

That was the hot wolf guy in UNDERWORLD.

Kate B. must have got a piece of that! Or was she just busy fucking her director that later became her husband

[quote] As Dan is leaving, Tom asks him when he had last been tested. A few moments later, he reveals that Dan's test was, in fact, positive.

The film doesn’t confirm to the viewer that Dan’s test is positive—it is only ambiguously implied.

R13 eh? Isn’t Speedman completely gay? And Marsden woman-leaning bi?

No

Speedman's O-face.

I’ve heard about gorgeous Speedman being gay, but Marsden being bi is news to me! More info?

I loved the surprise ending where everybody dies.

R19 Misery in a gay movie, who woulda thought?

Based on a Broadway play. Saw it a century ago because the two leads were WB eye candy. No faux sex. Totally forgettable.

What I do appreciate about the story is that it hilights unflinchingly how fucking deranged men can be when they know they’ve fucked up but to protect their ego still embark on a bloody senseless crusade to shift blame.

[quote]LOVERS

Fuckbuddies with no emotional connection whatsoever who don't live together or date or anything?

R23 the characters Tom & Dan are shown to build an emotional (or at least, perversely and tragically intimate) connection of sorts as the story progresses, but sadly it’s a rather piteous and tortured toxic one based on the mixture of both their nastiest facets.

They’d be the types to shack up and date as a masochistic act, and ruin their lives in the process. They are bad to and for one another, but in a sexy addictive kind of way; hence why Dan was tempted to break his own rule and let Tom fuck him again (before shit got weird and creepy), and perhaps partly why Tom invented the elaborately weird and creepy hostage plan in the first place.

Is this the movie where James shits his pants?

I hate that I wanted a second part where both men came to terms with their toxicity and decided to stay together and live their last years together.

R26 ahahaha ikr I imagined that too. It’s so fucked but it would make a hot misery-p*rn drama.

Remember the time James was on "Blossom" and he punched Blossom and the father of Blossom was like "Ah...I'll let it slide."

R28 Dad had to side with the prettier one.