Tim and John fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school. John was captain of the rugby team, Tim an aspiring actor playing a minor part in Romeo and Juliet. Their romance endured for 15 years to laugh 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.... (Full plot summary below)
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Tim and John fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school. John was captain of the rugby team, Tim an aspiring actor playing a minor part in Romeo and Juliet. Their romance endured for 15 years to laugh 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.
Leave your thoughts about Holding the Man.
| Flicks.co.nzGiles HardieIt is beautiful. It is tragic. And it is an absolute must-see. |
| Rip It UpDavid 'Mad Dog' BradleyThis is the very best Australian movie in longer than anyone would dare admit. |
| Herald Sun (Australia)Leigh PaatschThis compelling true story of two Melbourne schoolboys who fall in love despite their Catholic upbringing and the intense misgivings of their parents powerfully connects with the collective heart of an audience. |
| 3AWJim SchembriDirector Neil Armfield sidesteps melodrama to deliver a heart-breaking, sensitive, poignant portrait of love and loss. Anthony LaPaglia and Guy Pearce provide sturdy support as the fathers...2015 is turning into a stellar year for Australian film |
| Total FilmKate StablesThough it never shakes off its stage-play origins, it's a touching piece, clear-eyed about the temptations, disapproval and tragedy the couple endured. |
| Daily Telegraph (Australia)Nick DentThis very sad film hits home with the force of a rebuke. |
| Daily Express (UK)Allan HunterThere will not be a dry eye in the cinema. |
| Sydney Morning HeraldJake WilsonThe revelation is LaPaglia, a presence so powerful he almost throws the film off-balance, making it into an emotional triangle rather than the story of a couple. |
| Hollywood ReporterHarry WindsorAn affecting and unexpectedly funny tale of two lovers who had the misfortune to come of age during the burgeoning HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980's. |
| VarietyJay WeissbergMeant as a passionate chronicle of a great love, and a sobering reminder of the stigma of AIDS, the pic blandly conjures these sentiments and stands as one of the more wrong-footed evocations of coming out in the 1970s and '80s. |
