Kinsey (2004)
- Starring:
- Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, (more)
- Director(s):
- Bill Condon
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R
- Category:
- Drama
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Alfred Kinsey was an entomologist who taught at Indiana University and had a keen interest in an area of human behavior that had seen little scholarly research -- human sexuality. While the courtship and reproductive patterns of animals had been carefully documented, Kinsey believed that most "established facts" about human sexual behavior were a matter of conjecture rather than research and that what most people said about their sex lives was not born out by the evidence (a subject that had personal resonance for him given the troubles he and his wife Clara Kinsey had in the early days of their marriage). After introducing a course in "Marriage" at Indiana University which offered frank and factual information on sex to students, Kinsey began an exhaustive series of interviews with a wide variety of people from all walks of life in order to find out the truth about sex practices in America. When he published Sexual Behavior and the Human Male in 1948, his findings were wildly controversial, indicating that most men had a wider variety of sexual experiences than most people imagined, including a number of practices commonly thought to be dangerous or perverted (including pre-marital sex, same-sex contacts, and masturbation). An even greater outcry greeted Kinsey's next volume, Sexual Behavior and the Human Female, which contradicted common notions than most women went into marriage sexually inexperienced. Kinsey is a film biography written and directed by Bill Condon which examines Kinsey's life and work from his strict childhood until his death in 1956. Liam Neeson plays Alfred Kinsey, and Laura Linney co-stars as Kinsey's wife and colleague Clara. John Lithgow highlights the supporting cast as Kinsey's repressed and moralistic father, while Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, and Timothy Hutton play members of Kinsey's research team and Tim Curry appears as an IU faculty member at odds with Kinsey's teachings. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 118 mins
Complete Cast:
- Liam Neeson - Alfred Kinsey
- Chris O'Donnell - Wardell Pomeroy
- Timothy Hutton - Paul Gebhard
- Tim Curry - Thurman Rice
- Dylan Baker - Alan Gregg
- Bill Sadler - Kenneth Braun
- Veronica Cartwright - Sara Kinsey
- Heather Goldenhersh - Martha Pomeroy
- Lynn Redgrave - Final Interview Subject
- Susan Blommaert - Staff Secretary
- Jarleth Conroy - Grocer
- Katharine Houghton - Mrs. Spaulding
- Will Denton - Kinsey At 10
- Kate Jennings Grant - Marjorie Hartford
- Edwin J. McDonough - Mr. Morrissey
- Arden Myrin - Emily
- Mark Mineart - Slavic Man
- Lindsay Schmidt - Female Student #3
- Peg Small - Retired Teacher
- Maryellen Owens - Female Assistant Professor
- Michele Federer - Gall Wasp Class Coed
- Randy Redd - Student
- Doris Smith - Old Woman
- Phillip Kushner - Bellhop
- Chandler Williams - Prison Inmate
- Bobby Steggert - Male Student #3
- Thomas Luke MacFarlane - Bruce Kinsey
- Judith J.K. Polson - Mildred Kinsey
- Matthew Fahey - Kinsey At 14
- William Sadley - Kenneth Braun
- Barry Del Sherman - IU Reporter #1
- Pascal Armand - Young Black Woman
- Joe Zaloom - Janitor
- Don Sparks - Middle-Aged Businessman
- John Pruitt - Male Student #4
- Mara Hobel - Female Student #2
- Harley Cross - Young Man In Gay Bar
- Joe Badalucco - Radio Repairman
- Laura Linney - Clara Kinsey
- Peter Sarsgaard - Clyde Martin
- John Lithgow - Alfred Seguine Kinsey
- Oliver Platt - Herman Wells
- Julianne Nicholson - Alice Martin
- John McMartin - Huntington Hartford
- Kathleen Chalfant - Barbara Merkle
- Dagmara Dominczyk - Agnes Gebhard
- Michael Arkin - NYC Reporter #1
- Bill Buell - Dr. Thomas Lattimore
- Arthur French - Sharecropper
- Martin Murphy - Bartender
- Amy Wilson - Marriage Class Coed
- David Harbour - Robert Kinsey
- Sean Skelton - Staff Photographer
- Jefferson Mays - Effete Man's Friend
- Jason Patrick Sands - Male Student #1
- Kate Reinders - Female Student #1
- Roderick Hill - Clerical Worker
- Alvin Keith - Black Student
- Mike Thurstlic - Kenneth Hand
- Steven Edward Hart - Reverend
- Henrietta Mantooth - Poet
- Draper Shreeve - Ballet Teacher
- John Ellison Conlee - Bookstore Clerk
- Marcel Simoneau - Male Student #2
- Leigh Spofford - Joan Kinsey
- Romulus Linney - Rep. B. Carroll Reece
- Benjamin Walker - Kinsey At 19
- John Krasinski - Ben
- John Epperson - Effete Man In Gay Bar
- Dan Ziskie - NYC Reporter #2
- Jaime Tirelli - Hispanic Man
- Reno - Male Impersonator
- Tuck Milligan - NYC Reporter #3
- Clifford David - Professor Smithson
- Fred Burrell - IU Reporter #2
- Director(s):
- Bill Condon
- Writer(s):
- Bill Condon
- Producer(s):
- Gail Mutrux
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R(Adult Situations, Not For Children, Nudity, Profanity, Adult Humor, Strong Sexual Content)
- Categories:
- Drama
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- 2004 - Kinsey - American Film Institute - Best Film
- 2004 - Kinsey - American Film Institute - Best Picture
- 2005 - Kinsey - Berlin International Film Festival - In Competition
- 2004 - Kinsey - L.A. Film Critics Association - Best Actor
- 2004 - Kinsey - Los Angeles Film Critics Association - Best Actor
- 2004 - Kinsey - National Board of Review - Best Supporting Actress
- 2004 - Kinsey - National Society of Film Critics - Best Supporting Actress (Runner-up)
- 2004 - Kinsey - National Society of Film Critics - Best Supporting Actress (Runner-up)
- 2004 - Kinsey - National Society of Film Critics - Best Supporting Actor (Runner-up)
- 2004 - Kinsey - National Society of Film Critics - Best Supporting Actor (Runner-up)
- 2004 - Kinsey - Telluride Film Festival - Film Presented
- 2004 - Kinsey - Toronto International Film Festival - Film Presented





