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Kinsey
Kinsey
Actors: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Timothy Hutton
Director: Bill Condon
Genres: Drama
R     2005     1hr 58min

Liam Neeson stars as Alfred Kinsey, a man driven by scientific passion and personal demons to investigate the elusive mystery of human sexuality. Laura Linney garnered a Best Actress OscarÂ(r) nomination for her compellin...  more »
     
     

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Actors: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Timothy Hutton
Director: Bill Condon
Creators: Bill Condon, Adam Shulman, Bobby Rock, Francis Ford Coppola, Gail Mutrux, Joel Hatch, Kirk D'Amico
Genres: Drama
Sub-Genres: Love & Romance, Family Life
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Format: DVD - Color,Widescreen - Closed-captioned,Dubbed,Subtitled
DVD Release Date: 05/17/2005
Release Year: 2005
Run Time: 1hr 58min
Screens: Color,Widescreen
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Total Copies: 4
Members Wishing: 0
MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Languages: English, English, French
Subtitles: English, Spanish
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Member Movie Reviews

SV S.
Reviewed on 1/25/2020...
I went to look up the trailer to see if I wanted to order this film, and discovered that Alfred Kinsey was a violent child molester. The truth about this man is absolutely sickening and enraging, and I'm not at all surprised that Hollywood would try to make him seem good and harmless. I'm sure the actors, like most viewers, were unaware of the truth, but the writers of this film absolutely must have known, having been the ones doing the research.

Learn the truth by watching The Kinsey Syndrome on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDFb3Hx1DK8
If the comments at 47:00 minutes don't convince you how profoundly evil this man and Hollywood actually are, I don't know what will. "Kinsey" is utter lies and garbage. Whitewashing of a repulsive criminal of the very worst kind.
4 of 5 member(s) found this review helpful.
C. M P. (selkie)
Reviewed on 9/23/2015...
The PBS documentary "Kinsey" was much more interesting than this movie---I would recommend watching it instead.
1 of 1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Gary J. (gjones) from TROUTDALE, OR
Reviewed on 1/17/2010...
Fascinating. I'd heard of the Kinsey Report all my life but the story of he and his wife is amazing. Liam Neeson is awesome (as usual) and the rest of the cast is excellent. I especially liked the performance of Peter Sarsgaard, it was truly inspired. But it was the story itself, the ground-breaking research at a time when sex was simply not discussed. Phenomenal.
4 of 4 member(s) found this review helpful.
Heather F. (8izenuff) from PHOENIX, AZ
Reviewed on 9/19/2008...
I was prepared to not like this based on the rumor that the Kinsey report was tainted. It was well done and opened my eyes to the possiblility that before the Kinsey report young marrieds were not instructed on sex and the like and were frustrated with their love lives. Growing up in a different era you dont realized how things have changed. It was not filthy. Was it accurate about Kinsey? Possibly but it does shed a more innocent not filthy light on this person who thought he was helping people. Great cast.
3 of 5 member(s) found this review helpful.

Movie Reviews

A preoccupation with sex
Joseph Haschka | Glendale, CA USA | 11/03/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)

"KINSEY is the story of Alfred Kinsey, here played by Liam Neeson, the author of "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" (1948) and "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female" (1953), both of which raised, um, eyebrows.

As the film succinctly shows, Alfred, the son of a puritanical minister that went so far as to rail against zippers for giving idle hands easy access to occasions for sin, grew up to be a zoologist whose obsession with collecting and studying the gall wasp gained him a measure of obscurity. However, after marrying Clara McMillen (Laura Linney), with whom he achieved sexual liberation after sorting out a few physical impediments with the help of a knowledgeable physician, Kinsey achieved local notoriety at Indiana University by teaching an enlightened and graphic sex education course for students and staff. It was there that he first utilized questionnaires to elicit personal sexual histories, the methodology, administered by trained interviewers, that he later used in the thousands across the nation to build the database for his two books. In KINSEY, we also see depicted the Kinsey couple's unconventional sexual relationship, as well as those of Alfred's cadre of interviewers and their wives. Hugh Hefner would've been proud to have the investigative team over to his mansion for a frolic.

Insofar as it goes, KINSEY appears to give a reasonably accurate summary of the sex researcher's bio. I base this conclusion on my own sketchy knowledge of the subject, hastily gleaned from a website. The film does skip over a couple of minor points. It doesn't share that Alfred was an atheist who thought Judeo-Christian sexual ethics repressive. It also seamlessly transitions from Kinsey's sex-ed class at IU into his larger national study without revealing that he was replaced as the class instructor because his lecture content was too racy for the times. In any case, Neeson's performance is certainly worth an Oscar nomination for Best Actor, and perhaps Linney for Best Actress also.

Perhaps hoping to be on the cutting edge of sexual expression, as were Kinsey's two books, KINSEY has two brief shots of full-frontal male nudity (involving supporting actor Peter Sarsgaard), something not often seen in American theatres in mainstream releases. Kinsey would be pleased.

KINSEY is a finely crafted, entertaining, and instructive look at a simpler time and place before AIDS and HIV became parts of the sexual equation."
Good bio-pic that ignores the most interesting questions
Lesley Freitas | Chicago, IL USA | 06/23/2005
(3 out of 5 stars)

"When "Kinsey" was released, I entered the theater eagerly, expecting a detailed and thorough look at the man and his work; I left the theater disappointed, and that disappointment grew the more I thought back on the film. "Kinsey" does indeed provide a detailed and thorough look at Alfred Kinsey, but the movie's treatment of his work and its impact is very narrow. The filmmakers never quite get to the really interesting questions.

"Kinsey" tells the story of Alfred Kinsey (Liam Neeson), author of "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male." The film follows Kinsey's life from his early years as a zoologist and his marriage to his wife Clara (Laura Linney), through his groundbreaking work in the study of human sexuality and the effects of and reactions to that work.

As a straight bio-pic, "Kinsey" does a good job. However, it is hard to miss the fact that the implications of his work are largely ignored, and when the subject is raised, the movie quickly glosses it over. For instance, Kinsey appears to argue that sex and emotion can and should be thought of as unrelated (or at least not necessarily related), and he follows this principle in his own life. In the larger scale, this sentiment figured largely in the American sexual revolution, and continues to a vital part of current attitudes towards sex. Yet this aspect of Kinsey's work is addressed for only the briefest of moments. At one point, Clara--initially upset by the notion that sex and love can be divorced from one another--asks Kinsey, "But what about love?" This is by far the most compelling question the movie asks, yet the plot quickly moves past it, leaving it as merely a device to further the development of Kinsey and Clara's relationship.

The implications of Kinsey's work are not entirely ignored by the movie, and the filmmakers do a good job of addressing the impact on homosexuality and its perception. But ultimately, "Kinsey" deeply disappointed me. Although Kinsey's studies furthered our understanding of human sexuality, the subject still remains quite mysterious, and the filmmakers squandered a wonderful chance to probe its depths."
Fascinating research by a very strange guy
Daniel B. Clendenin | www.journeywithjesus.net | 01/24/2007
(4 out of 5 stars)

"In 1938 Alfred Kinsey, a young Harvard-trained zoologist whose speciality was the gall wasp, took over a course on "marriage" at Indiana University and, based upon his relentless curiosity and unapologetically scientific treatment of the subject, turned the class into something akin to sexology. He subsequently published Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), based upon 18,000 sexual histories he and his staff collected. For the first time ever, sex was scientifically-situated. This biographical dramatization reminded me of Ray, in the sense of an overwhelming human force who grappled with a perennial subject and in the process shaped American culture. The main message of the film, if it has one, seems to be that repression and taboo melt in the light of frankness and tolerance of difference, no matter how quirky: "We are the recorders and reporters of facts--not the judges of the behaviors we describe," insisted Kinsey. But the film is careful to show in some deeply painful moments like pedophilia, sex encouraged among staff members, Kinsey's bi-sexual experimentation, and broken marriages that human sexuality is far more, and more complex, than the mere scientific documentation of its parts. Fidelity, intimacy, integrity and love define sexuality as much as our habits. Kinsey died in 1956 at the age of 62, although the Kinsey Institute continues today."