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Released 11 years ago.
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Holding the Man
"A love story for everyone."
2015 2h 8m EN
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7.7TMDB ยท 470
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Synopsis
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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 โ the separations, the discrimination, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses โ until the only problem that love can't solve tried to destroy them.
โA love story for everyone.โ
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
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Neil Armfield
- Writers
- Tommy Murphy
- Languages
- English
- Countries
- Australia
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DIRECTOR
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Directed by Neil Armfield, shot by Germain McMicking. Note their partnership โ DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
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DIRECTOR
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Original score by Alan John. Worth a dedicated listen after โ most great films lose half their impact without the score.
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DIRECTOR
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Editor Dany Cooper shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
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CAST
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Ryan Corr and Craig Stott and Guy Pearce carry the top of the cast.
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FACT
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Marketing tagline: "A love story for everyone.".
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IMDB entry: tt3671542 โ still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
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Cinephile deep dive
The take
Neil Armfield directs. Germain McMicking behind the camera. Alan John scores. Dany Cooper cuts. Produced in Australia. Dialogue in English.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Released 11 years ago.
- 2Directed by Neil Armfield, shot by Germain McMicking. Note their partnership โ DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
- 3Original score by Alan John. Worth a dedicated listen after โ most great films lose half their impact without the score.
- 4Editor Dany Cooper shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
- 5Ryan Corr and Craig Stott and Guy Pearce carry the top of the cast.
- 6Marketing tagline: "A love story for everyone.".
- 7IMDB entry: tt3671542 โ still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 8Classified under 10 themes, including "australia", "aids", "1970s", "romance".
The technical file
- Cinematography
- Germain McMicking
- Original score
- Alan John
- Editing
- Dany Cooper
- Production design
- Josephine Ford
- Costume design
- Alice Babidge
- Makeup / hair
- Gail Kane
- Runtime
- 128 min ยท 2h 8m
- Aspect ratio (typical)
- 1.37:1 (Academy)
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- EN
- Certification (US)
- NR
Also by
Neil Armfield
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Trailers & featurettes
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Community reviews
What people are saying
- CinemaSerfโ 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 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 themselves to the inevitable. Guy Pearce and Geoffrey Rush star too and Anthony LaPaglia and Camilla Ah Kin play "John"'s parents sensitively - their grief compounded by their perception of the blame lying on his "choices". It is raw and at times horrible to watch - the decline is pretty full-on but none the less watchable and engrossing for that. It's seems odd now that this was an unstoppable disease, but for many of us who were young in the 1970s and 1980s this was just how it happened. The lack of legal status of the partner in the whole process is sickening but thankfully, for many, long changed for the better.
Production companies
Who made it
Goalpost Pictures
AU
Screen Australia
AU
- SN
Snow Republic
- JO
John Barry Group
Key crew
- Script SupervisorPaul Kiely
- Still PhotographerSarah Enticknap
- Executive ProducerRichard Payten
- Executive ProducerAndrew Mackie
- EditorDany Cooper
- Art DirectionMandi Bialek-Wester
- Executive ProducerRosemary Blight
- Set DecorationRolland Pike
- Associate ProducerTommy Murphy
- AuthorTimothy Conigrave
- CastingNikki Barrett
- Executive ProducerCameron Huang
- CastingNatalie Wall
- Production DesignJosephine Ford
- Makeup ArtistGail Kane
- Executive ProducerBen Grant
- ProducerKylie du Fresne
- Executive ProducerTristan Whalley
- HairstylistGail Kane
- Line ProducerEsther Rodewald
- Makeup DesignerFiona Rees-Jones
- Costume DesignAlice Babidge
Themes & keywords
What it's about, really
- australia
- aids
- 1970s
- romance
- love
- hiv
- lgbt
- long term relationship
- sexual discrimination
- gay theme
Release history ยท US
When it landed
- Premiere2016-06-10ยท Seattle International Film Festival
- Theatrical (limited)2016-06-10NR
Also known as
International titles
- ํ๋ฉ ๋ ๋งจKR
- O Amor รฉ Para TodosBR
- Ne engedd elHU
