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Holding the Man

2016 · Rated NR · 2h 8m · Neil Armfield

Drama
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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 – the separations, the discrimination, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses – until the only problem that love can't solve tried to destroy them.

Starring Ryan Corr, Craig Stott, Guy Pearce

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