Holding the Man

Unrated

6/10/20162h 8m

Premiere Release (US)

~ A love story for everyone. ~

Overview:

Tim and John fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school. John was captain of the football team, Tim an aspiring actor playing a minor part in Romeo and Juliet. Their romance endured for 15 years in the face of everything life threw at it – the separations, the discrimination, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses – until the only problem that love can't solve tried to destroy them.

Director:

Neil Armfield

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

australia
aids
1970s
romance
love
hiv
lgbt
long term relationship
sexual discrimination
gay theme

Cast

Ryan Corr

~ as ~

Timothy Conigrave

Craig Stott

~ as ~

John Caleo

Guy Pearce

~ as ~

Dick Conigrave

Sarah Snook

~ as ~

Pepe Trevor

Anthony LaPaglia

~ as ~

Bob Caleo

Geoffrey Rush

~ as ~

Barry

Camilla Ah Kin

~ as ~

Lois Caleo

Kerry Fox

~ as ~

Mary Gert Conigrave

Tom Hobbs

~ as ~

Peter Craig

Jacob Collins-Levy

~ as ~

Andrew

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 2 month(s) ago
7
Based on a true story; this is a touching and moving story of a couple of young Australian men who fall in love as youngsters in the days before there was any AIDS awareness. Ryan Corr ("Tim") and Craig Matthew Scott ("Tom") are superb as they act out their joyous loving relationship (complete with it's obligatory ups and downs) and then have to face the fact that, 15 years later, one has become terminally ill. We share the traumatic journey, poignantly told as they both try to reconcile themselves to the inevitable. Guy Pearce and Geoffrey Rush star too and Anthony LaPaglia and Camilla Ah Kin play "John"'s parents sensitively - their grief compounded by their perception of the blame lying on his "choices". It is raw and at times horrible to watch - the decline is pretty full-on but none the less watchable and engrossing for that. It's seems odd now that this was an unstoppable disease, but for many of us who were young in the 1970s and 1980s this was just how it happened. The lack of legal status of the partner in the whole process is sickening but thankfully, for many, long changed for the better.