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The Sessions

2012Movie1 h 35 minR

DramaRomance
79
GreatGoodWatch score
IMDb7.2Letterboxd3.6/5Metacritic797.5Rotten Tomatoes91%80%
79
GreatGoodWatch score
IMDb7.2Letterboxd3.6/5Metacritic797.5Rotten Tomatoes91%80%

Summary

Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien maintains a career as a journalist and poet.

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  • Comfort watch

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  • Feels like real life.
  • Lifts you up.
  • Makes you care deeply.
  • Makes you fall for them.
  • Pays off your patience.

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Artistic Licensein 530 titlesThe movie is inspired by true events, but a significant proportion of what's shown onscreen is fictional.Saintly ChurchRare · in 45 titlesWith Father Brendan as its avatar, the Catholic church gets a mostly positive, albeit somewhat irreverent, depiction which is distinctly at odds with how it has tended tobe portrayed in most twenty-f…All 57 tropes

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