Directed by Giles Alderson, who co-wrote the script with Daniel O'Reilly, Jonathan Kogan and Tobias Vees, Sessions sees O'Reilly play Richie, a man battling his demons while navigating the impact of substance abuse on his relationships and mental health. When Richie becomes the victim of a property scam, his life enters a downward spiral.
The film also stars Jonas Armstrong, Rupert Graves, Bill Fellows, Jaime Winstone, Leo Gregory, Preeya Kalidas, Percelle Ascott and Paul Smith.
Sessions is on UK/ROI VOD from November 27th.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
Richie’s life looks picture-perfect: a new wife, a baby on the way, and a loyal best friend who always knows how to turn up the volume. But beneath the surface, Richie is silently drowning. Terrified by the pressures of impending fatherhood and financial strain, he hides his crippling anxiety behind a mask of lad culture, fuelling himself with cocaine, whiskey, and denial. When his charismatic best friend Steve (Jonas Armstrong) drags him into a high-stakes property deal with a corrupt developer (Leo Gregory), Richie sees one last shot at fixing his life and proving his worth as a man.What starts as a quick score turns into a waking nightmare. As the deal unravels, Richie loses his job, his marriage, and his grip on reality. Hunted by a creditor (Rupert Graves) and haunted by his own mind, he spirals through a haze of drugs and paranoia, desperate to hold onto the one person he thinks he can trust. Sessions is a visceral psychological thriller that unmasks the silent epidemic of the male mental health crisis, exploring the devastating cost of toxic enabling, the trauma of unspoken grief, and the urgent, life-saving need for men to finally ask for help.
