![]() Surprisingly, given Murphy’s background as a playwright, his dialogue is consistently weak: No conversation achieves any depth. They separate, they get back together, and then once they’re happily living together in Sydney, they learn they’re both HIV-positive. Though they’re still a couple, Tim’s enjoying the hedonistic gay scene of the early 1980s, which makes John uncomfortable. Tim moves to Sydney to attend drama school (Geoffrey Rush briefly appears as his acting teacher), while John studies to be a chiropractor. Like the book, the film charts the couple’s ups and downs. Tim’s parents, Mary Gert (Kerry Fox) and Dick (Guy Pearce), as well as John’s mother, Lois (Camilla Ah Kin), prefer not to address such things openly, but Bob’s discomfort remains a palpable obstacle. When John’s father, Bob (Anthony LaPaglia), reads a love letter Tim sends his son, he forbids their friendship, but the teens brook no opposition and refuse to be separated. It’s 1976 in Melbourne, not exactly the most open of periods, yet their furtive affair is only fitfully hidden from classmates. At 16, Tim (Ryan Corr) has the hots for soccer star/classmate John (Craig Stott). ![]()
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