Holding the Man

“A love story for everyone.”

7.7(458)20152h 8m

Drama

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

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Cast

Ryan Corr

Timothy Conigrave

Craig Stott

John Caleo

Guy Pearce

Dick Conigrave

Sarah Snook

Pepe Trevor

Anthony LaPaglia

Bob Caleo

Geoffrey Rush

Barry

Camilla Ah Kin

Lois Caleo

Kerry Fox

Mary Gert Conigrave

Tom Hobbs

Peter Craig

Jacob Collins-Levy

Andrew

Tony Rickards

Mr. O'Connell

Lee Cormie

Eric

Reviews

1 review

Geronimo1967

5mo ago

7.0

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 t...