[ This is a re-post of my review from the 2012 Sundance Film Festival .  The Sessions  opens tomorrow in limited release. ] In the movies, pretty adults are supposed to have sex. The male lead and the female lead need to be our idealized selves more

Mark O'Brien, 38 years old and devoutly Catholic, hires a sex surrogate to relieve him of his virginity in  The Sessions , and we watch him up close and in bed as he achieves his goal. But wait, there's more. Because of childhood polio, O'Brien (John more