Cannes Film Festival 2013

2012 Sundance acquisition roundup: Robots, phone sex workers, virgin poets and more

Pick-ups include 'Red Lights,' 'Compliance,' 'The Words,' 'Celeste and Jessie'

'The Surrogate'

Who's in it: John Hawkes, William H. Macy, Helen Hunt.

What's it about: The fact-based story follows the late acclaimed poet Mark O'Brien (Hawkes) -- hooked up to an iron lung due to childhood polio -- as he tries to lose his virginity at the tender age of 38. 

Picked up by: Fox Searchlight

Photo Credit: Fox Searchlight

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