5/12/2018A true to life account of a love affair amidst the backdrop of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the early 1980's. This provides a spectrum of gay themes, from promiscuity to the possibility of real gay love.

Incrivelmente me faz não me importar com nenhum dos personagens e o que estão passando. Poderia ser mais curto.

What beautifully told story of romance. You can really feel the love between them!!

A really great, true-life romantic tear-jerker. A personal favorite - one of the best gay films of recent vintage.

Une touchante surprise. Holding the man est un drame biographique qui comporte quelques faiblesses scénaristiques, mais dans l'ensemble c'est fort efficace. Sortez les mouchoirs!

Fairly good but writing could be better.

Beautiful and affecting. I was not expecting such a graceful love story and poignant tragedy, even though I knew this film was about a gay relationship set in the 1970's and 1980's, during the height of the AIDS panic. Decent acting all around, with Corr of particular note. If you want a good cry over strength, love, loss and injustice, "Holding The Man" is a great place to start.

A haunting story which will stay with me forever. Wonderfully written, brilliantly cast. I feel some aspects of Tim's memoirs were omitted but I guess they had limited time ??

Just being born at the wrong time is the difference between life and death. This is very touching and distinctly Aussie view of a love story.

There's an enduring sweetness to this guttural cry of a memoir that keeps it palatable, despite its necessary intentions to dust up the demons of the many too-short, too-difficult lives it documents. For many - if not most - life is a nearly unendurable battle cry against its many injustices. This film argues that thesis, with only this as consolation: Love exists.

I enjoyed this movie quite a bit, though felt that John was a little light in personality and more easy on the eyes... Tim seemed selfish at times and very self involved, but he did show redeeming qualities when he thought he may have given John HIV, which, he did. I liked the movie and I cried a bit, being a sap for anything tear jerky. Didn't have high expectations when I went into it, so given that and how I feel now, moved, still thinking of this movie, I think that it was a pretty good flick.

??????Cried like a baby!

So sad ... so powerful. An important movie and story ... so hard to watch and yet I am so glad I did ...

This film caught me by surprise and my discovering that it was a true story, made it all the more touching.

the start of the movie really dragged in my opinion, but as the story progressed, you really started to connect and feel for each of the characters. very rewarding movie.