Title The Sessions Overview Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien John Hawkes 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 Helen Hunt to lose his virginity. Tagline The festival hit of the year! Genres Drama, Romance, Comedy Keywords cat, virgin, narration, wheelchair, graduation, sexual arousal, judaism, power outage, intimate, catholic church, sexual awakening, male virgin, woman crying, sponge bath, catholic priest, jealous husband, iron lung, sex surrogate, polio, crying woman, polio victim, jewish man, true life character, gurney, sexual pleasure, pity sex, jewish convert, handicap sex, sexual exploration, naked woman, thrift store Production Companies Rhino Films, Such Much Films Production Countries United States of America Spoken Languages English Original Language en Runtime minutes 98 Release Year 2012
Worldwide box office revenue: approximately 9 million USD