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Imagine being basically immobile from your neck down. Now imagine having an itch somewhere on your body. Mark O\u2019Brien, John Hawkes, the lead character of this touching film, tries hard to \u201cscratch with your mind.\u201d His battle with Polio has led him to his new normal. He needs to be attached to an iron lung for a large part of the day. His only independence involves whatever he can do with his mouth and usually a pencil or stick that he grabs with his mouth. He does this to dial a telephone, for instance. Now Mark is a poet, a Berkeley graduate, and is very witty and just a regular guy with an incredible limitation. But even with that, he seems to be in good spirits and deals with his situation with resourcefulness. His resourcefulness will come into play again with his latest and all consuming desire to lose his virginity. This is a new take of the 40 year old virgin, very much a new take. These extremely unusual circumstances call for an unusual resolution. In comes Cheryl, Helen Hunt, a sex surrogate who deals with these types of situations, go figure. What an occupation! What a story! Oh, and by the way, it\u2019s based on a true story. Even with the uniqueness of it, believe it or not, one of the more eye opening aspects of the movie is Helen\u2019s role and what she does for said role. Let\u2019s just say that we see her in a totally nude light . . . oops, I mean new light. And she looks darn good too. It\u2019s quite the buzz about this picture. But don\u2019t let that distract you from her performance which is also creating Oscar buzz. Mr. Hawkes is generating some buzz of his own as his performance is more than convincing. Adding some light-heartedness to the film, we get a genuine performance from William H. Macy as the Father to whom Mark confides his desires and adventures to, not just as a Father but more so as a friend. READ FULL REVIEW<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Imagine being basically immobile from your neck down. Now imagine having an itch somewhere on your body. Mark O\u2019Brien, John Hawkes, the lead character of this touching film, tries hard to \u201cscratch with your mind.\u201d His battle with Polio has led him to his new normal. He needs to be attached to an iron lung\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3984],"class_list":["post-11577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-the-sessions-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11579,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11577\/revisions\/11579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}