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27/08/2015 Drama 2h 8m
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A love story for everyone.

Overview

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.

  1. Neil Armfield

    Director

  2. Tommy Murphy

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Ryan Corr

    Timothy Conigrave

  2. Craig Stott

    John Caleo

  3. Guy Pearce

    Dick Conigrave

  4. Sarah Snook

    Pepe Trevor

  5. Anthony LaPaglia

    Bob Caleo

  6. Geoffrey Rush

    Barry

  7. Camilla Ah Kin

    Lois Caleo

  8. Kerry Fox

    Mary Gert Conigrave

  9. Tom Hobbs

    Peter Craig

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-10-10
Based on a true story; this is a touching and moving story of a couple of young Australian men who fall in love as youngsters in the days before there was any AIDS awareness. Ryan Corr ("Tim") and Craig Matthew Scott ("Tom") are superb as they act out their joyous loving relationship (complete with it's obligatory ups and downs) and then have to face the fact that, 15 years later, one has become terminally ill. We share the traumatic journey, poignantly told as they both try to reconcile themselves to the inevitable. Guy Pearce and Geoffrey Rush star too and Anthony LaPaglia and Camilla Ah Kin...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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