Helen Hunt plays a sex surrogate, and John Hawkes stars as Berkeley writer and poet Mark O'Brien, a polio survivor who decides to lose his virginity..

'The Sessions' gets under writer's skin
San Francisco Chronicle
Updated 3:07 a.m., Sunday, September 2, 2012. Helen Hunt plays a sex surrogate, and John Hawkes stars as Berkeley writer and poet Mark O'Brien, a polio survivor with a curved spine who decides to lose his virginity at age 38.