Holding the Man

This was a decent movie, but doesn't really capture the full essence of the book. Perhaps with a bigger budget it could have used better locations to give us a better sense of the era, but it all feels a little flat.

It is ten years since the release of Brokeback Mountain (2005), now widely acknowledged as a landmark film for the LGBT movement's long struggle to be heard on the big screen. It was one of many cinematic high-points on the wave of such films that started twenty years earlier.

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I was told this movie is great and I finally got around to watching it. I don't know what happened!

Very well acted and tightly directed. Unfortunately a bit melodramatic at times, and it's fairly sexually explicit.

This was one of the first ever gay movies I watched, It was amazing!! It made me feel so many emotions...

I never read the book, but I am convinced of it's sincerity - how could I not, the writer apparently wrote down his own beautiful but tragic love-story, just days before he himself died. The result is an equally sincere and emotional movie with some impressive acting.

This movie is the greatest and best movie I have ever watched, it was sad, happy, funny, all of the emotions. The storyline is amazing.