Movie Details
Original Language:English
Cast & Crew
N
Nickolas Bird
Director
E
Eleanor Sharpe
Director
Remembering the Man
"The real couple behind Holding the Man"Movie
Audience Score
DirectorsNickolas BirdEleanor Sharpe
1 hr 23 minHistory,
Documentary
Plot
At an exclusive Catholic boys school in Melbourne 1976 Tim Conigrave and John Caleo fell madly in love Their passionate tempestuous operatic romance lasted for 16 years facing disapproval temptation separation and the looming shadow of the Grim Reaper Their relationship has been immortalised in Conigraves posthumous autobiography Holding the Man now a major Australian film directed by Neil Armfield This is the true story of how Romeo met Romeo and how first love can not only last but endure
