Holding the Man
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.
- Production
- Goalpost Pictures, Screen Australia, Snow Republic, John Barry Group
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Cast
Ryan Corr
Timothy Conigrave
Craig Stott
John Caleo
Guy Pearce
Dick Conigrave
Sarah Snook
Pepe Trevor
Anthony LaPaglia
Bob Caleo
Geoffrey Rush
Barry
Camilla Ah Kin
Lois Caleo
Kerry Fox
Mary Gert Conigrave
Tom Hobbs
Peter Craig
Jacob Collins-Levy
Andrew
Tony Rickards
Mr. O'Connell
Lee Cormie
Eric
PiaGrace Moon
Prue
Tegan Higginbotham
Gina
Santo Tripodi
Michael Caleo
Crew
- Director
- Neil Armfield
- Writers
- Tommy Murphy
- Cinematography
- Germain McMicking
- Composer
- Alan John
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CinemaSerf
October 10, 2025
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 share the traumatic journey, poignantly told as they both try to reconcile themsel…