The Sessions (2012)
Written and Directed By: Ben Lewin, Based on an Article by Mark O'Brien
Why I Saw It: Lots of reasons -- mostly for John Hawkes and Helen Hunt
My Verdict: Definite thumbs up.
Thirty-eight-year-old writer and poet Mark O'Brien (John Hawkes) survived polio as a child, but he is paralyzed and spends most of his life in an iron lung. His intelligence, good humor, and wry wit win people over, but for the most part, he lives a lonely life, surrounded only by personal aides.
