The Sessions

6.7/10 from 220 votes

Director: Ben Lewin

Date of release: 02 May 2012

Description

Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien (John Hawkes) maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and the disabled piques Mark's curiosity, and he decides to investigate the possibility of experiencing sex himself. When his overtures toward a caregiver scare her away, he books an appointment with sex surrogate Cheryl Green (Helen Hunt) to lose his virginity.

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Budget	1000000 $
Runtime	98 minute
Producer	Rhino Films Such Much Films
Language	English
Themes	wheelchair cat catholic priest catholic church narration male virgin virgin graduation sexual awakening handicap sex intimate jealous husband iron lung sexual exploration judaism crying woman naked sexual arousal sexual pleasure power outage polio polio victim thrift store woman crying true life character sponge bath sex surrogate jewish man gurney pity sex jewish convert
Actors	Blake Lindsley John Hawkes W. Earl Brown Rhea Perlman Helen Hunt William H. Macy Rusty Schwimmer Adam Arkin James Martinez Annika Marks Moon Bloodgood Robin Weigert Daniel Quinn Ming Lo Jarrod Bailey Tobias Forrest Jennifer Kumiyama B.J. Clinkscales