Holding the Man(2015)

movie - first aired/released 2015-08-27 - 128 min - audience 7.7

Drama

Directed by Neil Armfield

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.