The Sessions
2012 · TMDB 6.9
Directed by Ben Lewin
Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien 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 Cohen-Greene to lose his virginity.
Why it matters
Ben Lewin dramatises O'Brien's sessions with a sex surrogate, with John Hawkes and Helen Hunt playing two adults negotiating touch, payment and tenderness. Hunt's performance is unsentimental and unguarded in equal measure.
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Released
- 2012-05-02
- Studio
- Such Much Films
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 6.9
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