The course of teenage love rarely runs smooth, but when you are secretly gay in an Aussie all-male school in the 1970s and entranced by the captain of the football team, life’s a thrill ride.
A pair of star-crossed lovers, Tim and John meet during a high-school production of Romeo and Juliet. The encounter ignites a romance that endures for fifteen years to laugh in the face of everything life throws at it – the separations, the discriminations, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses – until the only problem that love can’t solve, tries to destroy them.
Based on Timothy Conigrave’s cult-classic and hilarious memoir, and the inspiration for the award winning stage play also by Tommy Murphy, Holding The Man was produced by Goalpost Pictures and supported through our Production Investment funding.
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