Zoologist Alfred Kinsey's (Liam Neeson) research on human sexuality challenges the status quo of the late... (Learn more)
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Starring: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell
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
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US Release Date
11/12/04
MPAA Rating
Rated R for pervasive sexual content
Running Time
118 mins.
Locations
- New Jersey, USA
- New York, USA
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Language
- English
Box Office Total
$10,214,647
Awards
- Nominated for a Best Screenplay award at the 2004 Broadcast Film Critics Association [Fe Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Original Screenplay award at the 2004 Writers Guild of America [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Winner of the Best Supporting Actor (Runner-up) award at the 2004 National Society of Film Critics [Fest Awards.
- Winner of the Best Supporting Actress (Runner-up) award at the 2004 National Society of Film Critics [Fest Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama award at the 2004 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Supporting Actress award at the 2004 Screen Actors Guild [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Winner of the Best Supporting Actress award at the 2004 National Board of Review [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Moti award at the 2004 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Nominated for a Best British Actor award at the 2005 London Film Critics Association [Festi Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Actress award at the 2005 London Film Critics Association [Festi Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Supporting Actress award at the 2004 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture - Drama award at the 2004 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture award at the 2004 American Film Institute [Festival/Awar Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 2004 Broadcast Film Critics Association [Fe Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Supporting Actor award at the 2004 Broadcast Film Critics Association [Fe Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 2004 Independent Spirit Awards [Festival/Aw Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Supporting Actress award at the 2004 Broadcast Film Critics Association [Fe Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Actor award at the 2004 Independent Spirit Awards [Festival/Aw Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Supporting Actor award at the 2004 Independent Spirit Awards [Festival/Aw Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Screenplay award at the 2004 Independent Spirit Awards [Festival/Aw Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actor award at the 2004 Los Angeles Film Critics Association [ Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 2004 National Board of Review [Festival/Awa Awards.
Distributor
- 20th Century Fox
- Fox Searchlight
