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Holding the Man

A love story for everyone.

7.7(470)20152h 8m2

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.

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Status
Released
Budget
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Language
English
  • australia
  • aids
  • 1970s
  • romance
  • love
  • hiv
  • lgbt
  • long term relationship
  • sexual discrimination
  • gay theme

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Behind the camera

Produced in

Australia

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereSeattle International Film Festival10 Jun 2016
    • Theatrical (limited)NR10 Jun 2016
  • United KingdomGB

    • PremiereLondon LGBT Film Festival23 Mar 2016
    • Theatrical3 Jun 2016
  • AustraliaAU

    • PremiereSydney Film Festival14 Jun 2015
    • PremiereMelbourne International Film Festival8 Aug 2015
    • TheatricalMA15+27 Aug 2015
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical (limited)20 May 2016
    • Theatrical122 Jun 2016
  • NetherlandsNL

    • Physical12DVD2 Aug 2016
  • New ZealandNZ

    • PremiereNew Zealand International Film Festival30 Jun 2015
    • Theatrical27 Aug 2015
  • PolandPL

    • PremiereLGBT International Film Festival Poland27 Apr 2017

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Holding the Man was released on 27 August 2015.

Audience reviews

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    CinemaSerf

    10/10/2025

    7/10

    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 sh…

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