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Kinsey
starring: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Timothy Hutton
directed by: Bill Condon

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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543178606
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 17, 2005
Running Time: 118 minutes
Sales Rank: 17592
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 2004

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Editorial Review:

Description:
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 compelling performance as KinseyÃ"â??s free-thinking wife. This provocative drama dares to lift the veil of shame from a society in which sex was hidden, knowledge was dangerous and talking about it was the ultimate taboo.

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One of the best films of 2004, Kinsey pays tribute to the flawed but honorable man who revolutionized our understanding of human sexuality. As played by Liam Neeson in writer-director Bill Condon's excellent film biography, Indiana University researcher Alfred Kinsey was so consumed by statistical measurements of human sexual activity that he almost completely overlooked the substantial role of emotions and their effect on human behavior. This made him an ideal researcher and science celebrity who revealed that sexual behaviors previously considered deviant and even harmful (homosexuality, oral sex, etc.) are in fact common and essentially normal in the realm of human experience, but whose obsession with scientific method frequently placed him at odds with his understanding wife (superbly played by Laura Linney) and research assistants. In presenting Kinsey as a driven social misfit, Condon's film gives Neeson one of his finest roles while revealing the depth of Kinsey's own humanity, and the incalculable benefit his research had on our collective sexual enlightenment. With humor, charm, and intelligence, Kinsey shines a light where darkness once prevailed. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- To Some a Hero, To Others a Villain...
but it can't be denied that Dr. Alfred Kinsey made some important contributions in our understanding of Sexuality. This movie probably glosses over and rounds off some of the hard edges of the man and his work.

Liam Neeson and Laura Linney play their parts superbly. What struck me the most about this film was the way Kinsey doggedly and dogmatically went about his research-perfecting it in every way as the years went by. His first volume "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" was probably ... Read More

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- Two-Disc DVD Set Showcases How the Sexual Revolution Began in a Fascinating Biopic
Since its publication sixty years ago, the first Kinsey Report (real title: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male) has taken on mythic proportions for its groundbreaking look at never-before-examined human sexual habits. Dr. Alfred Kinsey is certainly worthy of a film biopic, and writer-director Bill Condon embraces the idea with a healthy respect for his subject, a strong sense of period atmosphere, and the same wry sense of humor he displayed in his fanciful James Whale tale, Gods and Monsters. Condon effectively ... Read More

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- Puritan America's sexual awakening through Kinsey...
It never occurred to me that watching a film about Dr. Kinsey would be like watching a dry documentary about a fascinating subject. That's the impression one can get from the opening scenes--but fortunately, the film improves as it goes on.

The film is structured as a series of vignettes based on the sort of questions that were posed in the Kinsey Report which was widely read and published in the '50s--and to some degree it works. We see how Kinsey himself came to regard sex and the study of it.
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- Interesting and informative
Watching this film, I couldn't help but wonder if people really were that ignorant so not very long ago. It just seems so odd and unbelievable. But maybe because I didn't grow up that way, in that prudish time. It also seems to me, that if it were not for this man Kinsey, then alot of people would have remained igonrant for quite a while. Liam Neeson is unabashed and perfect for this role. He loses himself in it and its quite believable. Laura Linney is also quite good as his faithful and understanding wife. They ... Read More

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- Lacking in subtlety
Kinsey bears a striking resemblance to Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind: both are biopic's of controversial historical figures whose single minded pursuit of the "truth" in their chosen fields went against the grain of social convention; both are simplistic, overly sentimental accounts designed as much to tug at the audience's heart strings as to paint a balanced portrait of a complex figure.

Liam Neeson is solid in the lead role as Alfred Kinsey, the man who revolutionised what we know of, and how we view, ... Read More

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