Holding the Man
A love story for everyone.
Directed by Neil Armfield
Produced by Goalpost Pictures, Screen Australia
A tender, melancholic portrait of a 15-year same-sex love story tested by discrimination, jealousy, and ultimately AIDS, grounded in warmth and deep connection despite inevitable loss.
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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