We first meet the idealistic Amanda (Annika Marks) as a student looking for a job on a college message board. She grabs a clever handwritten ad placed by Mark O’Brien (John Hawkes), an adult who ...

The man is sharp, witty, good-looking - and profoundly disabled. The only part of his body he can move is his head. But he can still be sexually aroused and, perhaps more importantly, his heart and ...

Is it possible to make a light-hearted movie about a man in an iron lung? The Sessions comes awfully close to realizing that unlikely goal via the true story of journalist and poet Mark O'Brien, who ...

“You were really and truly inside me,” Helen Hunt’s sex surrogate Cheryl assures her client, 36-year-old Mark O’Brien (John Hawkes), a poet and journalist confined to an iron lung after contracting ...