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Kinsey
Kinsey movie.jpg
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Bill Condon
Produced by
Gail Mutrux
Executive:
Francis Ford Coppola
 Kirk D'Amico
 Valerie Dean
Michael Kuhn
Bobby Rock
 Adam Shulman
Written by
Bill Condon
Starring
Liam Neeson
Laura Linney
Chris O'Donnell
Peter Sarsgaard
Timothy Hutton
John Lithgow
Tim Curry
Oliver Platt
Dylan Baker

Music by
Carter Burwell
Cinematography
Frederick Elmes
Edited by
Virginia Katz

Production
 company

American Zoetrope
Myriad Pictures

Distributed by
Fox Searchlight Pictures

Release dates

November 12, 2004


Running time
 118 minutes[1]
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$11 million[2]
Box office
$16,918,723[2]
Kinsey is a 2004 American biographical drama film written and directed by Bill Condon.[3] It describes the life of Alfred Charles Kinsey (played by Liam Neeson), a pioneer in the area of sexology. His 1948 publication, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (the first of the Kinsey Reports) was one of the first recorded works that tried to scientifically address and investigate sexual behaviour in humans. The film also stars Laura Linney (in a performance nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress), Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Timothy Hutton, John Lithgow, Tim Curry, and Oliver Platt.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Release
4 Reception 4.1 Awards and nominations
5 References
6 External links

§Plot[edit]
Professor Alfred Kinsey is being interviewed about his sexual history. Interspersed with the interview, are flashbacks from his childhood and young-adulthood. The young child years show his father, a lay minister, denouncing modern inventions as leading to sexual sin, then humiliating him in a store when its keeper shows him cigarettes, while his adolescence shows his experiences as a Boy Scout and a late teenage scene shows Kinsey disappointing his father by his chosen vocational intentions. It then shows adult Kinsey teaching at Indiana University as a professor of biology lecturing on gall wasps. Kinsey falls in love with a student in his class, whom he calls Mac, and marries her. Consummation of their marriage is difficult at first, because of a medical problem Mac has that is fixed easily with minor surgery, after which it is shown that she has an equally intense sexual appetite as her husband. Meanwhile, at the University, Professor Kinsey, who is affectionately called "Prok" by his graduate students, meets with students after hours to offer individual sexual advice.
At a book party celebrating Kinsey's latest publication on gall wasps, Kinsey approaches the dean of students about an open-forum sex education course as opposed to the anti-sex propaganda taught in a general health class. Eventually, it is approved, but on the grounds that it is open only to teachers, graduate or senior students or married students. Nevertheless, Kinsey begins, teaching the sex course to a packed auditorium. Kinsey continues to answer students' questions in personal meetings but finds his answers to be severely limited by the complete paucity of scientific data about human sexual behavior. This leads Kinsey to pass out questionnaires in his sexual education class from which he learns of the enormous disparity between what society had assumed people do and what their actual practices are. After securing financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation, Kinsey and his research assistants, including his closest assistant, Clyde Martin, travel the country, interviewing subjects about their sexual histories.
As time progresses Kinsey begins realizing that sexuality within humans, including himself, is a lot more varied than was originally thought. The range of expression he creates later becomes known as the Kinsey scale, which ranks overall sexuality from completely heterosexual to completely homosexual and everything in-between.
The first sexological book Kinsey publishes, which is on the sexual habits of the male, is a large-scale success and a best seller. Kinsey's research turns to women, which is met with more controversy. With the release of the female volume, support for Kinsey declines. McCarthyist pressures lead the Rockefeller Foundation to withdraw its financial support, lest it be labeled "Communist" for backing the subversion of traditional American values. Kinsey feels that he has failed everyone who has ever been a victim of sexual ignorance. A customs office is tipped off to an importation of some of Kinsey's research material, which only exacerbates the financial situation of Kinsey's research organization. Kinsey suffers a heart attack, and is found to have developed an addiction to barbiturates. Meeting with other philanthropists fails to garner the support needed. Still, Kinsey continues his taking of sex histories.
The story returns to the initial interview with Kinsey, and he is asked about love and if he will ever attempt to conduct research on it. His response is that love is impossible to measure and impossible to quantify (and without measuring, he reminds us, there can be no science), but that it is important. The final scene is of Kinsey and his wife, pulling over to the side of the road for a nature walk. She remarks about a tree that has been there for a thousand years. Kinsey replies that the tree seems to display a strong love in the way its roots grip the earth. Afterwards, the two walk off together, Kinsey remarking "there's a lot of work to do".
§Cast[edit]
Liam Neeson as Alfred Kinsey Benjamin Walker as 19-year-old Alfred
Matthew Fahey as 14-year-old Alfred
Will Denton as 10-year-old Alfred
Laura Linney as Clara McMillen
Peter Sarsgaard as Clyde Martin
Chris O'Donnell as Wardell Pomeroy
Timothy Hutton as Paul Gebhard
John Lithgow as Alfred Seguine Kinsey
Tim Curry as Thurman Rice
Oliver Platt as Herman Wells
Dylan Baker as Alan Gregg
William Sadler as Kenneth Braun
John McMartin as Huntington Hartford
John Krasinski as Ben
Lynn Redgrave as Final interview subject
Julianne Nicholson as Alice Martin
Veronica Cartwright as Sara Kinsey
Kathleen Chalfant as Barbara Merkle
Heather Goldenhersh as Martha Pomeroy
David Harbour as Robert Kinsey
Judith J.K. Polson as Mildred Kinsey
Leigh Spofford as Anne Kinsey
Jenna Gavigan as Joan Kinsey
Luke MacFarlane as Bruce Kinsey
Bill Buell as Dr. Thomas Lattimore
§Release[edit]
Kinsey was the first film permitted to show human genitalia uncensored in Japan, known for its strict censorship policies regarding genitalia.[4]
§Reception[edit]
 Kinsey was a critical success; review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives it a rating of 91% based on reviews from 192 critics.[5] On Metacritic, the film has a 79 out of 100 rating, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[6]
 The film was a minor box office success, grossing $16,918,723 worldwide on an $11 million budget, but only grossed $10,254,979 domestically.[2]
§Awards and nominations[edit]
According to its IMDb profile, Kinsey won 11 awards and received 27 other nominations.WonFlorida Film Critics CircleBest Supporting Actress (Linney)
GLAAD Media AwardsOutstanding Film – Wide Release
Los Angeles Film Critics AssociationBest Actor (Neeson)
National Board of ReviewBest Supporting Actress (Linney)
Phoenix Film Critics SocietyBest Supporting Actress (Linney)
Other nominationsAcademy AwardsBest Supporting Actress (Linney)
American Cinema Editors (ACE)Best Edited Film – Dramatic (Katz)
Broadcast Film Critics AssociationBest Film
Best Supporting Actor (Sarsgaard)
Best Supporting Actress (Linney)
Best Writer (Condon)
Casting Society of America (CSA)Best Film Casting – Drama (Tolan)
Golden Globe AwardsBest Actor – Motion Picture Drama (Neeson)
Best Picture – Drama
Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture (Linney)
Independent Spirit AwardsBest Actor (Neeson)
Best Film
Best Screenplay (Condon)
Best Supporting Actor (Sarsgaard)
Online Film Critics SocietyBest Supporting Actor (Sarsgaard)
Best Supporting Actress (Linney)
Satellite AwardsBest Actor – Motion Picture Drama (Neeson)
Best Director (Condon)
Best Film – Drama
Best Screenplay – Original (Condon)
Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Drama (Sarsgaard)
Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Drama (Linney)
Screen Actors Guild (SAG)Outstanding Female Actor in a Supporting Role (Linney)
Vancouver Film CriticsBest Actor (Neeson)
Writers Guild of America (WGA)Best Original Screenplay (Condon)
§References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "KINSEY (15)". 20th Century Fox. British Board of Film Classification. August 31, 2004. Retrieved September 26, 2013.
2.^ Jump up to: a b c Kinsey at Box Office Mojo
3.Jump up ^ Bill Condon (Director) (November 12, 2004). Kinsey. Fox Searchlight Pictures.
4.Jump up ^ Why is Japanese Porn Censored? : Japan Probe
5.Jump up ^ Kinsey at Rotten Tomatoes
6.Jump up ^ Kinsey at Metacritic
§External links[edit]
 Wikiquote has quotations related to: Kinsey (film)
Official website
Kinsey at the Internet Movie Database
Kinsey at Box Office Mojo
Kinsey at Rotten Tomatoes
Kinsey at Metacritic


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Kinsey (film)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search


Kinsey
Kinsey movie.jpg
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Bill Condon
Produced by
Gail Mutrux
Executive:
Francis Ford Coppola
 Kirk D'Amico
 Valerie Dean
Michael Kuhn
Bobby Rock
 Adam Shulman
Written by
Bill Condon
Starring
Liam Neeson
Laura Linney
Chris O'Donnell
Peter Sarsgaard
Timothy Hutton
John Lithgow
Tim Curry
Oliver Platt
Dylan Baker

Music by
Carter Burwell
Cinematography
Frederick Elmes
Edited by
Virginia Katz

Production
 company

American Zoetrope
Myriad Pictures

Distributed by
Fox Searchlight Pictures

Release dates

November 12, 2004


Running time
 118 minutes[1]
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$11 million[2]
Box office
$16,918,723[2]
Kinsey is a 2004 American biographical drama film written and directed by Bill Condon.[3] It describes the life of Alfred Charles Kinsey (played by Liam Neeson), a pioneer in the area of sexology. His 1948 publication, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (the first of the Kinsey Reports) was one of the first recorded works that tried to scientifically address and investigate sexual behaviour in humans. The film also stars Laura Linney (in a performance nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress), Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Timothy Hutton, John Lithgow, Tim Curry, and Oliver Platt.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Release
4 Reception 4.1 Awards and nominations
5 References
6 External links

§Plot[edit]
Professor Alfred Kinsey is being interviewed about his sexual history. Interspersed with the interview, are flashbacks from his childhood and young-adulthood. The young child years show his father, a lay minister, denouncing modern inventions as leading to sexual sin, then humiliating him in a store when its keeper shows him cigarettes, while his adolescence shows his experiences as a Boy Scout and a late teenage scene shows Kinsey disappointing his father by his chosen vocational intentions. It then shows adult Kinsey teaching at Indiana University as a professor of biology lecturing on gall wasps. Kinsey falls in love with a student in his class, whom he calls Mac, and marries her. Consummation of their marriage is difficult at first, because of a medical problem Mac has that is fixed easily with minor surgery, after which it is shown that she has an equally intense sexual appetite as her husband. Meanwhile, at the University, Professor Kinsey, who is affectionately called "Prok" by his graduate students, meets with students after hours to offer individual sexual advice.
At a book party celebrating Kinsey's latest publication on gall wasps, Kinsey approaches the dean of students about an open-forum sex education course as opposed to the anti-sex propaganda taught in a general health class. Eventually, it is approved, but on the grounds that it is open only to teachers, graduate or senior students or married students. Nevertheless, Kinsey begins, teaching the sex course to a packed auditorium. Kinsey continues to answer students' questions in personal meetings but finds his answers to be severely limited by the complete paucity of scientific data about human sexual behavior. This leads Kinsey to pass out questionnaires in his sexual education class from which he learns of the enormous disparity between what society had assumed people do and what their actual practices are. After securing financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation, Kinsey and his research assistants, including his closest assistant, Clyde Martin, travel the country, interviewing subjects about their sexual histories.
As time progresses Kinsey begins realizing that sexuality within humans, including himself, is a lot more varied than was originally thought. The range of expression he creates later becomes known as the Kinsey scale, which ranks overall sexuality from completely heterosexual to completely homosexual and everything in-between.
The first sexological book Kinsey publishes, which is on the sexual habits of the male, is a large-scale success and a best seller. Kinsey's research turns to women, which is met with more controversy. With the release of the female volume, support for Kinsey declines. McCarthyist pressures lead the Rockefeller Foundation to withdraw its financial support, lest it be labeled "Communist" for backing the subversion of traditional American values. Kinsey feels that he has failed everyone who has ever been a victim of sexual ignorance. A customs office is tipped off to an importation of some of Kinsey's research material, which only exacerbates the financial situation of Kinsey's research organization. Kinsey suffers a heart attack, and is found to have developed an addiction to barbiturates. Meeting with other philanthropists fails to garner the support needed. Still, Kinsey continues his taking of sex histories.
The story returns to the initial interview with Kinsey, and he is asked about love and if he will ever attempt to conduct research on it. His response is that love is impossible to measure and impossible to quantify (and without measuring, he reminds us, there can be no science), but that it is important. The final scene is of Kinsey and his wife, pulling over to the side of the road for a nature walk. She remarks about a tree that has been there for a thousand years. Kinsey replies that the tree seems to display a strong love in the way its roots grip the earth. Afterwards, the two walk off together, Kinsey remarking "there's a lot of work to do".
§Cast[edit]
Liam Neeson as Alfred Kinsey Benjamin Walker as 19-year-old Alfred
Matthew Fahey as 14-year-old Alfred
Will Denton as 10-year-old Alfred
Laura Linney as Clara McMillen
Peter Sarsgaard as Clyde Martin
Chris O'Donnell as Wardell Pomeroy
Timothy Hutton as Paul Gebhard
John Lithgow as Alfred Seguine Kinsey
Tim Curry as Thurman Rice
Oliver Platt as Herman Wells
Dylan Baker as Alan Gregg
William Sadler as Kenneth Braun
John McMartin as Huntington Hartford
John Krasinski as Ben
Lynn Redgrave as Final interview subject
Julianne Nicholson as Alice Martin
Veronica Cartwright as Sara Kinsey
Kathleen Chalfant as Barbara Merkle
Heather Goldenhersh as Martha Pomeroy
David Harbour as Robert Kinsey
Judith J.K. Polson as Mildred Kinsey
Leigh Spofford as Anne Kinsey
Jenna Gavigan as Joan Kinsey
Luke MacFarlane as Bruce Kinsey
Bill Buell as Dr. Thomas Lattimore
§Release[edit]
Kinsey was the first film permitted to show human genitalia uncensored in Japan, known for its strict censorship policies regarding genitalia.[4]
§Reception[edit]
 Kinsey was a critical success; review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives it a rating of 91% based on reviews from 192 critics.[5] On Metacritic, the film has a 79 out of 100 rating, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[6]
 The film was a minor box office success, grossing $16,918,723 worldwide on an $11 million budget, but only grossed $10,254,979 domestically.[2]
§Awards and nominations[edit]
According to its IMDb profile, Kinsey won 11 awards and received 27 other nominations.WonFlorida Film Critics CircleBest Supporting Actress (Linney)
GLAAD Media AwardsOutstanding Film – Wide Release
Los Angeles Film Critics AssociationBest Actor (Neeson)
National Board of ReviewBest Supporting Actress (Linney)
Phoenix Film Critics SocietyBest Supporting Actress (Linney)
Other nominationsAcademy AwardsBest Supporting Actress (Linney)
American Cinema Editors (ACE)Best Edited Film – Dramatic (Katz)
Broadcast Film Critics AssociationBest Film
Best Supporting Actor (Sarsgaard)
Best Supporting Actress (Linney)
Best Writer (Condon)
Casting Society of America (CSA)Best Film Casting – Drama (Tolan)
Golden Globe AwardsBest Actor – Motion Picture Drama (Neeson)
Best Picture – Drama
Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture (Linney)
Independent Spirit AwardsBest Actor (Neeson)
Best Film
Best Screenplay (Condon)
Best Supporting Actor (Sarsgaard)
Online Film Critics SocietyBest Supporting Actor (Sarsgaard)
Best Supporting Actress (Linney)
Satellite AwardsBest Actor – Motion Picture Drama (Neeson)
Best Director (Condon)
Best Film – Drama
Best Screenplay – Original (Condon)
Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Drama (Sarsgaard)
Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Drama (Linney)
Screen Actors Guild (SAG)Outstanding Female Actor in a Supporting Role (Linney)
Vancouver Film CriticsBest Actor (Neeson)
Writers Guild of America (WGA)Best Original Screenplay (Condon)
§References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "KINSEY (15)". 20th Century Fox. British Board of Film Classification. August 31, 2004. Retrieved September 26, 2013.
2.^ Jump up to: a b c Kinsey at Box Office Mojo
3.Jump up ^ Bill Condon (Director) (November 12, 2004). Kinsey. Fox Searchlight Pictures.
4.Jump up ^ Why is Japanese Porn Censored? : Japan Probe
5.Jump up ^ Kinsey at Rotten Tomatoes
6.Jump up ^ Kinsey at Metacritic
§External links[edit]
 Wikiquote has quotations related to: Kinsey (film)
Official website
Kinsey at the Internet Movie Database
Kinsey at Box Office Mojo
Kinsey at Rotten Tomatoes
Kinsey at Metacritic


[hide]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
Films directed by Bill Condon


Sister, Sister (1987) ·
 Deadly Relations (1993) ·
 The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1995) ·
 Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995) ·
 Gods and Monsters (1998) ·
 Kinsey (2004) ·
 Dreamgirls (2006) ·
 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011) ·
 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012) ·
 The Fifth Estate (2013) ·
 Mr. Holmes (2015)
 

  


Categories: 2004 films
English-language films
2000s drama films
2000s LGBT-related films
American films
American drama films
American LGBT-related films
Films directed by Bill Condon
American biographical films
Bisexuality-related films
Films based on actual events
Films set in Indiana
American Zoetrope films
Fox Searchlight Pictures films






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