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Holding The Man
The movie depicts the 15-year relationship between Tim and John that goes through the separations, the discrimination, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses. It seems like there is nothing that can do them apart, but there is.
30 September 1959, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
31 January 1959, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
8 July 1994, Australia
August 30, 2015
Holding The Man is a moving drama that beautifully balances its broad timeframe.
June 02, 2016
What should be a heart-wrenching viewing experience remains disappointingly flat despite two dedicated performances.
August 28, 2015
Director Neil Armfield sidesteps melodrama to deliver a heart-breaking, sensitive, poignant portrait of love and loss. Anthony LaPaglia and Guy Pearce provide sturdy support as the fathers...2015 is turning into a stellar year for Australian film
June 03, 2016
Sometimes more Wikipedia bio than memoir.
January 06, 2016
This very sad film hits home with the force of a rebuke.
January 06, 2016
Meant as a passionate chronicle of a great love, and a sobering reminder of the stigma of AIDS, the pic blandly conjures these sentiments and stands as one of the more wrong-footed evocations of coming out in the 1970s and '80s.
June 02, 2016
The tale of a 70s schoolboy romance that blossoms into a relationship and is torn apart by the advent of HIV in the 80s.
June 02, 2016
Sluggishly formulaic, this is a disappointingly superficial interpretation of an important book.
June 03, 2016
Told with a lovely romantic sweep and full of raw, honest emotion, this is a gay love story that's also just a great love story, full stop. Yay.
August 21, 2015
An affecting and unexpectedly funny tale of two lovers who had the misfortune to come of age during the burgeoning HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980's.
