The Sessions (Blu-ray) R
The festival hit of the year!
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Blu-ray 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 | |
Performer: | William H. Macy, Rhea Perlman, Moon Bloodgood, Annika Marks & Adam Arkin | |
Directed by | Ben Lewin | |
Edited by | Lisa Bromwell | |
Screenplay by | Ben Lewin | |
Composition by | Marco Beltrami | |
Cinematography by | Geoffrey Simpson |
Entertainment Reviews:
[Hunt] is so good here it's almost a rediscovery....[An] undeniably endearing piece...
Sight and Sound
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
THE SESSIONS is a pleasant shock: a touching, profoundly sex-positive film that equates sex with intimacy, tenderness and emotional connection instead of performance, competition and conquest.
New York Times
[S]urprisingly accessible and emotionally effective....[A] well-acted and constructed film...
Hollywood Reporter
Rating: 4/5 --
Satisfaction guaranteed? Pretty much.
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London Evening Standard
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Sweet, witty and on the right edge of serious, The Sessions looks like an early 2013 audience favourite.
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Flick Feast
[A]dmirably frank and funny about sex...sweet instead of raunchy, and plaintive instead of snickering and vulgar. -- Grade: B
A.V. Club
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.