The Sessions
The festival hit of the year!
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.
- Year: 2012
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
- Studio: Such Much Films, Rhino Films
- Keyword: virgin, cat, narration, wheelchair, graduation, based on true story, sexual arousal, judaism, power outage, catholic church, sexual awakening, male virgin, sponge bath, catholic priest, jealous husband, iron lung, sex surrogate, polio, polio victim, sexual pleasure, handicap sex
- Director: Ben Lewin
- Cast: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy, Moon Bloodgood, Annika Marks, Adam Arkin