R | 1 h 38 min | Drama | Comedy | Romance

IMDB 7.2 / 10 (40,973 votes)

The Sessions (2012)

The Sessions | United States of America

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 Green to lose his virginity.

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Description

Director

Ben Lewin

Stars

John Hawkes
Mark O'Brien

Helen Hunt
Cheryl Cohen Greene

William H. Macy
Father Brendan

Moon Bloodgood
Vera

Annika Marks
Amanda

W. Earl Brown
Rod

Adam Arkin
Josh

Rhea Perlman
Mikvah Lady

Anna Zak
Shikma

Robin Weigert
Susan

Others...

Budget

1,000,000.00

Revenue

9,138,338.00

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Keywords

based on true story, virgin, cat, power outage, wheelchair, narration, graduation, sexual awakening, polio, intimate, catholic church, judaism, male virgin, sexual arousal, sponge bath, catholic priest, jealous husband, iron lung, sex surrogate, polio victim, sexual pleasure, handicap sex

Production

Rhino Films, Such Much Films

Actor

John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy, Moon Bloodgood, Annika Marks, W. Earl Brown, Adam Arkin, Rhea Perlman, Anna Zak, Robin Weigert, Blake Lindsley, Ming Lo, Orel Zabari, Rusty Schwimmer, Jennifer Kumiyama, Tobias Forrest, Jarrod Bailey, James Martinez, Daniel Quinn, B.J. Clinkscales, Omer Hazan, Shirli Levi, Shira Levy, Sandra Sade, Kevin Robin, Moris Cohen, Tal Mosseri, Eden Meiri, Miri Bohadana, Ilanit Levi, Israel Atias, Angel Bonanni

Creators

Marco Beltrami (Original Music Composer), Ronnie Yeskel (Casting), Lisa Bromwell (Editor), Stephen Nemeth (Producer), Geoffrey Simpson (Director of Photography), John Mott (Production Design), Ben Lewin (Director), Judi Levine (Producer), Justine Seymour (Costume Design), Sofia Jimenez (Set Decoration), Trevor Gates (Sound Effects Editor), Angela Hemingway (Dialogue Editor), Steven Iba (Supervising Sound Editor), Joshua Adeniji (Sound Effects Editor), Sharon Smith (Music Editor)

Alternative titles

Seis Sesiones De Sexo (SV)

Release dates

02.05.2012 (DE)
17.01.2013 (NL)
03.07.2013 (NL)
12.01.2018 (NL)
14.02.2013 (IT)
15.10.2012 (GB)
18.10.2012 (US)
23.01.2012 (US)
06.12.2013 (JP)
06.03.2013 (FR)
15.02.2013 (BR)
07.03.2013 (DK)
21.12.2012 (ES)
23.10.2012 (AU)

The Sessions (2012)

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