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.
Holding the Man has generally received very positive reviews.
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Holding the Man was released in 2015 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 63 reviews, giving Holding the Man (2015) an average rating of 76%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 83%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 65%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with Holding the Man than critics were.
With a score of 76%, Holding the Man is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2015, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 2015 with similar scores include films like Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Little Prince and The Boy and the Beast.
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