Inspired by the true story of a guy who uses an iron lung, and decides he wants to lose his virginity. He has five or six sessions with a professional sex therapist, who not only fulfills his wish but develops a serious relationship with the intelligent but deeply incapacitated patient.
Fantastic performances by the able-bodied John Hawkes - I had to check he wasn't an iron lung user in real life, such was the perfection of his acting - and the newly re-appeared from the ashes Helen Hunt - who braved the critics and the cold by playing this role.
This film was funny - but not a comedy; touching - but not a weepie, and in the end rewarding. A low tempo but high skin-quotient affair that had me wondering how on earth the therapist was able to deliver such services while being - apparently happily - married, albeit in the 1980s Republic of Berkeley.
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