The Sessions R
The festival hit of the year!
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 12, 2013
- Originally Released: 2012
- Label: Searchlight
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, Annika Marks, William H. Macy, Adam Arkin, Moon Bloodgood & Rhea Perlman | |
| Directed by | Ben Lewin | |
| Edited by | Lisa Bromwell | |
| Screenwriting by | Ben Lewin | |
| Screenplay by | Ben Lewin | |
| Composition by | Marco Beltrami | |
| Director of Photography: | Geoffrey Simpson |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 4/5 --
Lewin, who has fought his own lifelong polio battle, handles tricky material with a gentle, empathetic touch.
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Time Out
Rating: 2/4 --
A muddled, scattershot film of hollow platitudes anchored by two exceptional performances.
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From the Front Row
O'Brien chronicled his surrogacy experience with such humor and intellect that empathy, not pity prevailed....That sensibility buoys writer-director Ben Lewin's screenplay as well.
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 4/5 --
Hunt is a prodigy. No other actress could have brought such easeful transparency, such a glow of givingness, such heedlessness of glamour each time she strips naked.
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Financial Times
[Hawkes delivers] an extraordinary performance, from the pinched voice conveying anxiety with humor to the twisted posture that can express, almost simultaneously, the agony of severe disability and the ecstasy of human contact.
Wall Street Journal
A love story between a man and life itself. A story that should humble, challenge and inspire us all.
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Behind The Lens
3.5 stars out of 4 -- [Lewin] has crafted an exhilarating gift of a movie that's funny, touching and vital. And Hawkes does the kind of acting that awards were invented for.
Rolling Stone
Product Description:
A 38-year-old man who has spent most of his life in an iron lung enlists the help of a sexual surrogate in order to lose his virginity in this drama starring Oscar-nominated actor John Hawkes and inspired by the life of poet/journalist Mark O'Brien. With the support of an unconventional priest (William H. Macy) and a devoted team of caretakers, the virginal writer hires a compassionate sex surrogate (Helen Hunt), who finds her life profoundly transformed by their tender sessions.
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