The Sessions
The Sessions may refer to:
The Sessions (album)
The Sessions is a compilation album by The Stranglers.
Track listing
The Sessions (film)
The Sessions (originally titled The Surrogate) is a 2012 American independent drama film written and directed by Ben Lewin. It is based on the article "On Seeing a Sex Surrogate" by Mark O'Brien, a poet paralyzed from the neck down due to polio, who hired a sex surrogate to lose his virginity. John Hawkes and Helen Hunt star as O'Brien and sex surrogate Cheryl Cohen-Greene, respectively.
The film debuted at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award (U.S. Dramatic) and a U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting. Fox Searchlight Pictures acquired the film's distribution rights and released the film in October 2012. The Sessions received highly positive reviews from critics, in particular lauding the performances of Hawkes and Hunt. Hunt was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role at the 85th Academy Awards.
Plot
In Berkeley, California in 1988, Mark O'Brien is a poet who is forced to live in an iron lung due to complications from polio. Due to his condition, he has never had sex. After unsuccessfully proposing to his caretaker Amanda, and sensing he may be near death, he decides he wants to lose his virginity. After consulting his priest, Father Brendan, he gets in touch with Cheryl Cohen-Greene, a professional sex surrogate. She tells him they will have no more than six sessions together. They begin their sessions, but soon it is clear that they are developing romantic feelings for each other. Cheryl's husband, who loves her deeply, fights to suppress his jealousy, at first withholding a love poem that Mark has sent by mail to Cheryl, which she eventually finds. After several attempts, Mark and Cheryl are able to have mutually satisfying sex, but decide to cut the sessions short on account of their burgeoning feelings.
Podcasts:
The Sessions
ALBUMS
- Get Thorny released: 2009
- Take It! released: 1994
Take It!
Released 1994- Shake With Me
- Bike Beat, Part 2
- Bike Beat, Part 1
- Go on Then
- I've Been Thinking
- Living Alone
- Galway Bay
- Dance to the Bop (live)
- Catch Me a Rat (live)
- As Long as I Live (live)
- Only for You
- I Get Up in the Morning
- A Fool Such as I
- It Can Happen to You
- Like a Bird Without Feathers
- The Birds & The Bees
- Something at the Bottom of the Garden
- Getaway
- Little Brown Jug
- Satan's Holiday
- Earthshaker
- Let Me In
- Satisfy My Soul
- Down in the Flood
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by Hank Snow
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by Lynyrd Skynyrd
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by Weihnachtslieder
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by Gomez
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by Loreena McKennitt
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by Martin Guerre Soundtrack
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by Karan Casey
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by Simple Life 2 Soundtrack
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by Open Up & Bleeds
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by Hungry Ghosts
The Seasons
by: Hank SnowWritten by Ray Griff
Recorded by Hank Snow
The seasons come and go but in my heart I know
Whether it rain or snow our dream's all fair
The seasons drift on by like clouds across the sky
But we both realize that shadows pass
I would never change or try to rearange a thing about you dear
I'll love you just the way you are through all the coming years
The seasons play their parts and each one leaves its mark
But I know in my heart our love will last
I would never change...