The Sessions
- Comedy
- Drama
- Romance
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.
- Directed by
- Ben Lewin
- Written by
- Ben Lewin
Cast
- John Hawkes
- Helen Hunt
- William H. Macy
- Moon Bloodgood
- Annika Marks
- Adam Arkin
- Rhea Perlman
W. Earl Brown- Robin Weigert
- Blake Lindsley
- Ming Lo
- Rusty Schwimmer
Keywords
- affectation
- understated
- based on true story
- whimsical
- admiring
- anxious
- zealous
- virgin
- cat
- sentimental
- angry
- roman catholic church
- power outage
- sexual awakening
- unassuming
- wheelchair
- graduation
- judaism
- narration
- male virgin
- sexual pleasure
- jealous husband
- catholic priest
- sexual arousal
- polio
- sponge bath
- iron lung
- sex surrogate
- polio victim
- handicap sex
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