Holding the Man
Tim and John fell in love as teenagers at their all-boys high school. John captained the football team, while Tim pursued acting and landed a minor role in Romeo and Juliet. Their romance endured for fifteen years through separations, discrimination, temptations, jealousies, and losses—until the only problem that love can't solve tried to destroy them.
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Paul Kiely
Neil Armfield
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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.
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The directors of Holding the Man are Paul Kiely and Neil Armfield.
The cast of Holding the Man includes Tegan Higginbotham as Gina, Anthony LaPaglia as Bob Caleo, Guy Pearce as Dick Conigrave, Ryan Corr as Timothy Conigrave, Sarah Snook as Pepe Trevor, Kerry Fox as Mary Gert Conigrave, Geoffrey Rush as Barry, Tom Hobbs as Peter Craig, Lee Cormie as Eric, Tony Rickards as Mr. O'Connell, Jacob Collins-Levy as Andrew, Craig Stott as John Caleo, and more.
The duration of Holding the Man is 2h 8 mins.
Yes. You can watch the Holding the Man trailer on this Fanbiz page on Fanziz.
Holding the Man was released on 27 Aug 2015.
Holding the Man is listed under Drama on Fanbiz.
Holding the Man has 1 review on Fanziz, with an average rating of 7.0/10. One reviewer wrote: "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. Ry..."
