The Sessions

2012 · 95 min · ★ 6.9 / 10 · 635 votes

Drama · Romance · Comedy

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.

Cast

John Hawkes · Helen Hunt · William H. Macy · Moon Bloodgood · Annika Marks · Adam Arkin · Rhea Perlman · W. Earl Brown · Robin Weigert · Blake Lindsley

Director

Ben Lewin