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The Sessions is a 2012 American drama film written and directed by Ben Lewin. It is based on the 1990 article "On Seeing a Sex Surrogate" by Mark O'Brien, a poet paralyzed from the neck down due to polio, who hired a sex surrogate to lose his virginity. John Hawkes and Helen Hunt star as O'Brien and sex surrogate Cheryl Cohen-Greene ...
Academy Award Winner Helen Hunt (Actress, As Good As It Gets, 1997) joins Academy Award Nominees John Hawkes (Supporting Actor, Winter's Bone, 2010) and Will...
Oct 18, 2012 · Directed by Ben Lewin. Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance. R. 1h 35m. By Stephen Holden. Oct. 18, 2012. At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, I would like to nominate John Hawkes and Helen Hunt in ...
- Ben Lewin
- Stephen Holden
- 95 min
Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review dave s Based on actual events, The Sessions tells the story of Mark O'Brien (John Hawkes), a man stricken by polio as a young ...
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Inspired by a true story, The Sessions, follows the fascinating relationship which evolves between Cheryl and Mark as she takes him on his journey to manhood. — Anonymous. The aspirant writer Mark O'Brien uses an iron lung since the day he had poliomyelitis. Mark was raised by his religious family and when he is a thirty-eight year-old man ...
Nov 19, 2012 · The Sessions tells the story of Mark O’Brien, a man confined to an iron lung for most of his day and who is determined, as he nears 40, to lose his virginity. The premise could be mistaken for a potential comedy or a melodrama. It was neither. In fact, The Sessions has been the focus ...
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Sep 10, 2012 · Written and directed by Ben Lewin, himself a polio survivor, “The Sessions” is remarkbaly hearfelt drama that affords Hunt her best on screen role in ages; one that’s been courting a lot of ...
