TelegraphHelen Hunt and John Hawkes star in this sensitively-judged film about a 38-year-old polio sufferer trying to lose his virgin...
TelegraphThe Sessions, a film about a nearly immobile man trying to lose his virginity, is a deeply humane and very accessible piece ...
The GuardianJudd Apatow isn't the only thing visible in the background of a sweet, sex-fixated comedy
Total FilmAided by committed, awards-ready performance, The Sessions transforms taboo subject matter into a humorous, humane and uncom...
The Christian Sciene MonitorAlthough stylistically and conceptually it never lifts itself entirely out of the realm of a made-for-television drama – don...
ReelViewsBack toward the beginning of her career, a then- 29 year old Helen Hunt appeared in a movie called The Waterdance. The film ...
Chicago Sun-TimesYou can tell from his reedy voice that speaking is an effort for Mark. He's 38 years old, and after contracting polio, he ha...
JobloWhile it's obviously a bit of a hard sell, hopefully people will give it a shot as Hawkes deserves an Oscar nomination, as d...
New York MagazineIt lacks the fullness of the best films of its ilk, chief among them Jim Sheridan's My Left Foot. But Lewin lets his eye wan...
New York Daily NewsIt's strange to call a film with so much nudity and simulated sex "old-fashioned," but The Sessions nicely bridges that gulf...
Rolling StoneJohn Hawkes does the kind of acting that awards were invented for in this exhilarating gift of a movie that's funny, touchin...
The New York TimesThe Sessions is a pleasant shock: a touching, profoundly sex-positive film that equates sex with intimacy, tenderness and em...
Los Angeles TimesIn a country that embraces cinematic violence with such ease but blushingly prefers to keep sex in the shadows or under the ...
SlateThis frank, funny, tender film both asks and receives more from its sex scenes than any movie I've seen in a long time.
Wall Street JournalThe Sessions is admirable, and often enjoyable, yet self-limiting in concept. It's exactly about what it sets out to be abou...
New York PostThe Sessions treats intimacy with an explicitness and honesty that's very rare in movies.
Chicago Sun-TimesThis film rebukes and corrects countless brainless and cheap sex scenes in other movies. It's a reminder that we must be kin...
Chicago TribuneO'Brien was the subject of an Oscar-winning short Breathing Lessons, and it seems likely that The Sessions will receive a fe...
The Boston GlobeThe achievement of this simply told, exceptionally fine film is the clarity with which it portrays the drama of a good soul ...
San Francisco ChronicleIt sends viewers out of the theater with a heightened sense of the physical and a real feeling for all the things that sex m...
Entertainment WeeklyMark O'Brien, 38 years old and devoutly Catholic, hires a sex surrogate to relieve him of his virginity in The Sessions, and...
Black Sheep ReviewsSimply fascinating with an emotional impact that is subtly slipped in amidst fearless performances.
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Partial Film Information
Director: Ben Lewin
Writer: Ben Lewin
Studio: Fox Searchlight
Cast: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy
Release: January 3, 2012
Writer: Ben Lewin
Studio: Fox Searchlight
Cast: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy
Release: January 3, 2012
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