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In "The Sessions, " John Hawkes, nominated for Best Actor as a poet suffering from polio, spends the entire movie on his back.
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She falls for a shoe salesman (John Hawkes), who is recently separated and supposed to be caring for his two young sons.
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Also being screened is The Sessions, which stars John Hawkes as a polio patient in an iron lung who enlists a sex surrogate (Helen Hunt) in order to lose his virginity.
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"Six Sessions" (formerly known as "The Surrogate, ") a highly anticipated film-festival hit with John Hawkes and Helen Hunt, is about a man in an iron lung who wants to lose his virginity.
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"The Sessions" earned two acting prizes, for John Hawkes as a man in an iron lung hoping to lose his virginity and Helen Hunt as the sexual surrogate helping him through it.
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With Dale Dickey and John Hawkes.
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What looks like a peaceful, rustic refuge in upstate New York turns out to have been the power base of a small cult, overseen by the charismatic Patrick (John Hawkes), which lured Martha and other errant young souls into its nefarious ways.
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