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Holding the Man

Holding the Man

7.7/ 10

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2015

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128 min

Runtime

Drama

Overview

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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Keywords

australia
aids
1970s
romance
love
hiv
lgbt
long term relationship
sexual discrimination
gay theme

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@Geronimo1967

October 10, 2025

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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

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