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...See more 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.
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PLOT: Mark O’Brien (John Hawke) is a thirty-eight year old writer-poet who, due to polio, is essentially paralyzed from the neck down, and spends most of his time in an iron lung. Due to his disability, he’s a virgin, but...
THE SESSIONS is a dramedy starring John Hawkes (WINTER’S BONE), Helen Hunt, and William H. Macy about a man afflicted with polio (Hawkes) who makes the decision that he no longer wants to be a virgin and hires a “sex...
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