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Helen Hunt stars in 'The Sessions'

John Hawkes and Helen Hunt deliver remarkable performances in 'The Sessions.'

By Peter Rainer,?Film critic / October 19, 2012

Helen Hunt stars in 'The Sessions.'

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Mark O?Brien, a poet and journalist who died in 1999 at age 49, contracted polio as a young boy and spent most of his life in an iron lung. He wrote by tapping keys with a stick held in his mouth. Ben Lewin?s ?The Sessions,? starring John Hawkes in a remarkable performance as O?Brien, is about one disabled man?s quest to have relations with a woman. To do so, he hires a professional sex therapist, Cheryl, played by the equally remarkable Helen Hunt.

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Rounding out the expert cast is William H. Macy as Father Brendan, whose droll counsel is a balm to the deeply religious O?Brien. Although stylistically and conceptually it never lifts itself entirely out of the realm of a made-for-television drama ? don?t expect ?My Left Foot? ? ?The Sessions? is bracing. It?s also one of the few movies to recognize that people with severe physical disabilities have sexual lives, too.

Grade: B+ (Rated R for strong sexuality including graphic nudity and frank dialogue.)

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