Holding the Man

Holding the Man

  • Director: Neil Armfield
  • Writer: Tommy Murphy,Timothy Conigrave
  • Countries of origin: Australia
  • Language: English
  • Release date: August 27, 2015
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: 深擁一世情
  • "Holding The Man" is a gay film directed by Neil Armfield and starring Craig Stott and Anthony M. LaPaglia .
    Adapted from the stage play of the same name, the film tells the story of two men's 15-year love run and their fight against AIDS together.

    Details

    • Release date August 27, 2015
    • Filming locations Lipari, Lipari Island, Aeolian Islands, Messina, Sicily, Italy
    • Production companies Screen Australia, Goalpost Pictures, Snow Republic

    Box office

    Gross worldwide

    $767,038

    Movie reviews

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    • By Lilliana 2022-04-09 09:01:08

      A good movie that is suitable for a person to enjoy quietly in the afternoon on a rainy day.

      The whole film is humorous and interspersed with sadness and warmth, as well as a little joking. Because I have seen the ordinary heart before, I seem to find some similar shadows, and I admire the dedicated character of the actors, especially Peacock feels distressed for the character's crazy diet and thinness. Back to the topic, it is true that the director's grasp of the interspersed description of time is not enough, which makes people a little confused. Many people will complain about...

    • By Lourdes 2022-04-09 09:01:08

      I will continue to hold you tight in the next life

      After watching it carefully, what I want to complain about is that it was a bit of a drama for two people to play in their school days? When you and I met in school days, friends and parents accidentally learned that we were together. We may be separated, but we will not be separated. Maybe every time we grow up Everyone will have a period of boredom, but the people who love the most are always each other. We fight against AIDS together. I make you laugh and watch you sad. I feel...

    • By Flo 2022-04-09 09:01:08

      I want you back again, please…John

      As a senior viewer who has read countless (base) films, there are two types of base films that I have never felt personally. One is those who keep denouncing religious hats, and the other is that they always equate or equate AIDS with AIDS. of.

      In fact, this movie was released in high-definition bilingual subtitles when it was freshly released. It seemed that it was recommended at the time, but after I roughly knew what it was about, it kept accumulating dust in the hard disk, and I...

    • By Sherwood 2022-04-09 09:01:08

      The love between gays is still touching

      Now more and more enlightened countries have legalized homosexuality.
      Homosexuality is reasonable, legal, and objective. In our country, whether in textbooks or in practice, it was wrong to treat homosexual patients as diseases in the past. In fact, it is not homosexuals who are sick. What is sick is backward and ignorant thoughts and concepts.
      I used to have a colleague who was gay. Although we consider ourselves to be tolerant of homosexuality, we often make fun of his words and...

    • By Dana 2022-04-09 09:01:08

      hold him forever

      A very moving movie, although one makes mistakes and has lost and hesitant, isn't life there are many possibilities of unsatisfactory?

      And that didn't change the deep love for each other

      It's a pity that the disease takes another person away from the world (after all, there will always be unsatisfactory places in reality, but everything is so cruel)

      They can't stay together until they grow old, but they will always be together forever, in that person's brain...

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    • By Matilde 2022-04-11 09:01:07

      Although the moral concept can not stand the test, it is impossible in life, and it is impossible to make mistakes and predict the result of an action. Most of the time in the film, the two people are still very moving and...

    • By Eriberto 2022-04-11 09:01:07

      The uncle acting as a teenager makes me so embarrassed. It's more real, especially real, but it's also humbling. Fortunately, what I translated was the first half hour, which was infinitely beautiful, uh, except for the two young faces who were a little...

    • By Bo 2022-04-11 09:01:07

      Not even a trace of love was...

    • By Shanie 2022-04-10 09:01:08

      Finally, reflect on...

    • By Jaida 2022-04-10 09:01:08

      It's a very warm film, although it's a not very new story, but the love story that has happened is always...

    Movie plot

    The film is based on real events and restores the living conditions of homosexuals in Australia in the 1980s and 1990s. "We have been together for 15 years, and he is my husband!" Facing homosexuals suffering from AIDS, he chose to stick to the Beside your lover, fight against difficulties together. 
    The handsome captain of the high school boys' football team, John, and Tim, a young actor in the drama club, have worked together to face...
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    Behind the scenes gags

    Holding the Man in the title of the film is actually a football term, which means pulling a person to block a foul.
    Based on a true story, the film is based on the best-selling memoir of the same name by Australian author, actor and activist Timothy Conigrave. Timothy died on the tenth day of writing the book at the age of 34.
    "Holding The Man" was published in 1995 and won the UN Human Rights Award that year. In 2003 the book was voted...
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    Movie quotes

    • Timothy Conigrave: What happens to my soul if I go mad? Does it stay trapped inside or is it floating free?

    • Timothy Conigrave: [to John] I should have worked harder to make you come.

      [Girls laugh]

      Timothy Conigrave: Is there a problem?

      [Girls laugh harder]