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Holding the Man

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Holding the Man

Aug 27, 2015

2h 8m

★ 7.7

A love story for everyone.

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Goalpost Pictures

Screen Australia

Snow Republic

John Barry Group

Cast

Ryan Corr

Timothy Conigrave

Ryan Corr

Craig Stott

John Caleo

Craig Stott

Guy Pearce

Dick Conigrave

Guy Pearce

Sarah Snook

Pepe Trevor

Sarah Snook

Anthony LaPaglia

Bob Caleo

Anthony LaPaglia

Geoffrey Rush

Barry

Geoffrey Rush

Camilla Ah Kin

Lois Caleo

Camilla Ah Kin

Kerry Fox

Mary Gert Conigrave

Kerry Fox

Tom Hobbs

Peter Craig

Tom Hobbs

Jacob Collins-Levy

Andrew

Jacob Collins-Levy

Tony Rickards

Mr. O'Connell

Tony Rickards

Lee Cormie

Eric

Lee Cormie

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