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Holding the Man

2015
★ 7.5 / 10
Tim and John fell in love at their all-boys high school. Their romance endured for 15 years to laugh in the face of everything life threw at it - the separations, the discriminatio...
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Reviews
★★★★★
I admit, I was rather apprehensive to watch this movie because I knew it would not be easy since the subject matter was quite obviously not about entertaining but rather tackling a difficult subject matter. And so I waited for a long time before getting the co...
★★★★★
...showing the story of two teenagers through to their early 30s. Both the book and movie were unknown to me, so I came at this without expectations. This movie succeeds with material that is very familiar--if not overly familiar--to gay men like myself. That...
★★★★★
Director Neil Armfield, who was at the charity screening of 'Holding the Man' I went to tonight, took a huge undertaking when he decided to direct the film of Tim Conigrave's autobiographical novel (A memoir that was an ode to Conigrave's lover and partner Joh...
★★★★★
I was given the book by a friend from Australia in about '97,I have read it countless times through the years. I never thought anyone would be able to bring the story to the screen, as Tim had written a remarkable story. Finally seeing the movie, I can only...
★★★★★
I am just as speechless as I guess the audiences would have been after watching the movie. I probably haven't cried this much since my boyfriend passed away because of AIDS as I did today. Tim & John are a wonderful couple. The days, months, years they spent t...
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Holding the Man Official Trailer
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