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Oct 19, 2012 · All are delivered straight to your inbox. Get ready to experience Searchlight Pictures films like never before. Based on the poignantly optimistic autobiographical writings of California-based journalist and poet Mark O'Brien, THE SESSIONS tells the story of a man confined to an iron lung who is determined - at age 38 - to lose his virgiity.
The Sessions: Directed by Ben Lewin. With John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy, Moon Bloodgood. A man in an iron lung who wishes to lose his virginity contacts a professional sex surrogate with the help of his therapist and priest.
- Ben Lewin
- 3 min
Sep 10, 2012 · Indiewire caught up with Hunt in Toronto, where “The Sessions” is screening (it opens October 26 via Fox Searchlight), to find out whether she had any reservations about the nudity required on ...
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 ...
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, respectively.
The Sessions movie cast and actor biographies. Check out the latest photos and bios of the cast and filmmakers of The Sessions. Starring John Hawkes, Helen...
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Nov 19, 2012 · When writer-director Ben Lewin first came across polio victim Mark O’Brien’s 1990 article, “ On Seeing a Sex Surrogate,” he was immediately intrigued: A 38 year-old man confined to an iron lung for 80% of his day, and largely paralyzed from the neck down, seeks to lose his virginity. Though Lewin had also suffered from polio as a child ...
