Holding the Man

2015

Action / Biography / Drama / History / Romance

69
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 81% · 26 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 81% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.5/10 10 14326 14.3K

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Plot summary

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 Photo
Neil Armfield

Top cast

Guy Pearce Photo
Guy Pearce as Dick Conigrave
Craig Stott Photo
Craig Stott as John Caleo
Marcus Graham Photo
Marcus Graham as Doctor Sam
Geoffrey Rush Photo
Geoffrey Rush as Barry
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923.41 MB
1280*534
English 2.0
TV-MA
Subtitles
23.976 fps
2 hr 7 min
Seeds 3
1.93 GB
1920*800
English 2.0
TV-MA
Subtitles
23.976 fps
2 hr 7 min
Seeds 10

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

Based on a true story; this is a

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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Reviewed by mrlloydcopper 6 / 10

Book's better but still touching

As with most films adapted from the book, you'll only get half the story in a movie. The acting is superb and the story relatively faithful to the original novel but it has some flaws. Namely, I found the mixing up of dates confusing. They didn't really need to jump back and forwards, I'm not sure why they did that. There is a lot of sex with spunky guys which will get on the wrong side of any homophobes or the conservatives but it is a neccessary part of the story as it depicts a lot of how the gay male community interacts (I'm gay, I can vouch for this). Ultimately it ends in tragedy and is quite a moving film but having been one of my favourite books, I will always prefer that to this.

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