writer director tony piccirillo adapt his own play about a straight man and recently widow and learn in the last three week he be hiv positive while he track down the one homosexual partner he ever have and bring him to an apartment and tie him up and force a blood test on the guy and promise bloody revenge if the result come back positive . intrigue idea sound well on paper than it play out . james marsden captive be realistically cynical and snotty and but the actor own artificial mannerism be disconcert it like watch a roadshow version of tom cruise . scott speedman have to work harder with the more challenging role and but his personality turn from shy guy to kidnapper on the edge isn not convincing and and neither be the conversation the two men have . marsden gay party boy isn not apathetic and of course he momentarily sympathetic to speedman plight but he doesn not react or behave the way any homosexual man would in this circumstance . the movie isn not a cop out and exactly and but it be a fraud and handicap far by the bad editing and the poorly conceive flashback and the low budget production and and the big finale which smack of silly pretension and soapy melodrama . half from .