Ben Lewin's The Sessions has been playing in theaters for a few weeks, having first gotten attention at this year's Sundance Film Festival, and much of the discussion to date has been about the performances by John Hawkes and Helen Hunt. Hawkes plays Bay Area poet Mark O'Brien who suffered from debilitating childhood polio that kept him in an iron lung and paralyzed him from the neck down, while Hunt plays a sex surrogate who helped him overcome his lack of sexuality due to those limitations at the age of 39. You have to give some of the credit to Australian writer/director Ben Lewin, who found and read Mark O'Brien's article and realized that it would make a good movie, then went through a five-year process to get that movie made. The first step was to write a screenplay that...
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