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Kinsey (2004)

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Reviews Counted:179

Fresh:162

Rotten:17

Average Rating:7.7/10

Consensus: A biopic of the sex researcher is hailed as adventurous, clever, and subversive, with fine performances by Liam Neeson and Laura Linney.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for pervasive sexual content, including some graphic images and description

Runtime: 2 hrs 9 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Nov 12, 2004 Limited

Box Office: $10,214,647

Synopsis: Academy Award®-winning writer-director Bill Condon (GODS AND MONSTERS) turns the microscope on Alfred Kinsey in a drama that is at once a portrait of a man driven to uncover the most private... Academy Award®-winning writer-director Bill Condon (GODS AND MONSTERS) turns the microscope on Alfred Kinsey in a drama that is at once a portrait of a man driven to uncover the most private secrets of the nation, and a journey into the mystery of human behavior. Liam Neeson stars as Kinsey, who in 1948 irrevocably changed American culture and created a media sensation with his book Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. Asking thousands of people about the most intimate aspects of their lives, Kinsey lifted the weight of doubt and shame from a society in which sex was hidden, and knowledge was dangerous. His work sparked one of the most intense cultural debates of the past century – a debate that rages on today. Created by a remarkable roster of talent both in front of and behind the camera, the all-star cast of KINSEY includes Oscar® nominee Liam Neeson (SCHINDLER’S LIST), Oscar-nominated Laura Linney (YOU CAN COUNT ON ME), Golden Globe® nominee Chris O’Donnell (SCENT OF A WOMAN), Golden Globe-nominated Peter Sarsgaard (SHATTERED GLASS), Oscar winner Timothy Hutton (ORDINARY PEOPLE), Oscar nominee John Lithgow (TERMS OF ENDEARMENT), Emmy®-nominated Tim Curry ("Tales from the Crypt"), Emmy nominee Oliver Platt ("The West Wing") and National Board of Review Winner Dylan Baker (HAPPINESS). The behind-the-scenes team on KINSEY includes Director of Photography Frederick Elmes, who has shot many of acclaimed director Ang Lee’s films including THE HULK and THE ICE STORM, and David Lynch’s films including BLUE VELVET, for which he received numerous awards including the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography, and WILD AT HEART, which won the Cannes Film Festival Palme D’Or and an Independent Spirit Award. Production Designer Richard Sherman re-joins Condon following their collaboration on GODS AND MONSTERS, as well as several other films. Editor Virginia Katz rejoins Condon for a seventh time, following her work on GODS AND MONSTERS and CANDYMAN: FAREWELL TO THE FLESH. KINSEY is a Fox Searchlight and Qwerty Films presentation in association with Myriad Pictures of a N1 European Film Produktions-GmbH + CO.KG and Pretty Pictures production. Gail Mutrux (NURSE BETTY, DONNIE BRASCO) produces and executive producers are Michael Kuhn (THE ORDER, BEING JOHN MALKOVICH) of Qwerty Films, Oscar-winning writer/director Francis Ford Coppola (THE GODFATHER series, PATTON) and Bobby Rock (JEEPERS CREEPERS II, EVE’S BAYOU) of American Zoetrope, and Kirk D’Amico (TRAUMA, THE GOOD GIRL) of Myriad. [More]

Starring: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard

Starring: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Timothy Hutton, John Lithgow, Tim Curry, Oliver Platt, Dylan Baker, Kathleen Chalfant, Lynn Redgrave, Veronica Cartwright

Director: Bill Condon

Director: Bill Condon
Screenwriter: Bill Condon
Producer: Gail Mutrux
Composer: Carter Burwell
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures

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[Neeson] makes the movie better than it is by filling in the rough patches with a portrayal so committed, so nuanced, that this may be the role he's remembered for (and which may finally win him an Oscar).

Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | comment Comment
11/23/04
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Succeeds, in part, because the film is as non-judgmental as the famed sex researcher himself.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
11/23/04
Bill Muller
Bill Muller
Arizona Republic
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Liam Neeson’s outstanding performance here, warm, charismatic and smart, is well supported by the other actors.

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
11/23/04
Brian Webster
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide

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Full Review Source: ToxicUniverse.com | comment Comment
11/22/04
Dan Callahan
Dan Callahan
ToxicUniverse.com

A fascinating slice of social history and an unsettling look at our indomitable sexual natures.

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
11/22/04
William Arnold
William Arnold
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

A candid and beautifully crafted film.

Full Review Source: Palo Alto Weekly | comment Comment
11/22/04
Jeanne Aufmuth
Jeanne Aufmuth
Palo Alto Weekly

Neeson and Linney are absolutely marvelous, and the entire supporting cast credible and terrific. Look for Oscar nominations throughout.*

Full Review Source: Sympatico.ca | comment Comment
11/22/04
Angela Baldassarre
Angela Baldassarre
Sympatico.ca
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Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
11/20/04
Boston Phoenix

A riveting portrayal of a pioneer who quickly became a political and social target for opening up a hitherto unresearched area of human life.

Full Review Source: San Diego Metropolitan | comment Comment
11/20/04
Jean Lowerison
Jean Lowerison
San Diego Metropolitan

Intelligent, probing portrait of the man who stuck a needed thumb into the eye of a narrow-minded public.

Full Review Source: Denton Record Chronicle (TX) | comment Comment
11/20/04
Boo Allen
Boo Allen
Denton Record Chronicle (TX)

It's a love letter from a director to a ghost who still hovers over us all.

Full Review Source: Dallas Observer | comment Comment
11/19/04
Robert Wilonsky
Robert Wilonsky
Dallas Observer

How strange this moment would seem to Kinsey, whose dedication to science - as a lifelong pursuit, and mode of feeling -- led him to reject so-called "moral" judgments.

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
11/19/04
Cynthia Fuchs
Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters

There's a flatness to the filmmaking; what's needed here is a lot more va-va in its va-va-voom.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
11/19/04
Teresa Wiltz
Teresa Wiltz
Washington Post

A convincing picture of an America semiconsciously cowered in fear and ignorance about sexuality.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
11/19/04
Desson Thomson
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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The humour is rich but never bawdy.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
11/19/04
Peter Howell
Peter Howell
Toronto Star
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It's the biography of a sex pioneer disguised as a love story, or a romance with some rather intriguing side issues, and it begins with one of cinema's more intriguing pickup lines: 'I've been reading up on gall wasps.'

Full Review Source: Seattle Times | comment Comment
11/19/04
Moira MacDonald
Moira MacDonald
Seattle Times

It's a film Kinsey himself might have appreciated: It's sober, never flashy or exciting but always engrossing, both for its penetration into Kinsey's psychology and for the effects his findings are shown to have on the world and the people around him.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
11/19/04
Mick LaSalle
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
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The movie has the crackle of important changes at work, though it tends to slap and tickle its themes.

Full Review Source: San Diego Union-Tribune | comment Comment
11/19/04
David Elliott
David Elliott
San Diego Union-Tribune

Condon's understated directing, and thoughtful, funny script are worthy of mention at Oscar nomination time.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
11/19/04
Jane Stevenson
Jane Stevenson
Jam! Movies

Straight from the first frames, writer-director Bill Condon adroitly tackles the problem that all biopics about accomplished people invariably bump up against: How to marry the life to the work, dramatizing one without slighting the other?

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
11/19/04
Rick Groen
Rick Groen
Globe and Mail
 
 
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