A 38 year old paraplegic is tired of being a virgin and looks for sex by means of sexual surrogate Helen Hunt. This reeked of Oscar bait (the two lead characters are a disabled guy and a prostitute with a heart of gold!). I went into this wanting to hate it...once it was under way, the nonchalant approach and good acting made me want to love it...neither happened. A nice movie where most of the good stuff comes not from the script but from the actors trying to inject truth into the proceedings. Once again Helen Hunt struggles with an accent and it comes off as inauthentic (this time it's a Boston accent, about as convincing and tenuous as her Brooklyn accent in
As Good As It Gets). Her vagina's holding up nicely (you see it often, it's practically a supporting character). Much better than her face, she looks as if she sleeps in a dehydrator. Also starring John Hawkes, Moon Bloodgood, and William H. Macy (who looks like he shares that dehydrator).
I'm worried now, since I sleep with a goddamn dehydrator on, every night. It's to combat rising damp, but still . . . will I look like Helen Hunt someday soon?
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