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- Fighting the SystemObsessive QuestHuman NatureSexual RelationsLove and RomanceMind and SoulSocietyCouples more...
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- DramaPeriod
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- 20th Century40s50s
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- IndianaCollegeUniversityCampus
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- Critically Acclaimed
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- All Star CastTalky
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Kinsey, 2004
English, Slovenian
USA, Germany
Profile of Kinsey
Kinsey can be described as thought provoking, clever, and contemplative. The plot revolves around an obsessive quest, fighting the system, and sexual relations. The main genres are drama and period. In terms of style, Kinsey features an all-star cast and is talky. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. Kinsey is set, at least in part, at a university. It is located in Indiana. It takes place in the 1950s. Kinsey is drawn from a biography and originally a true story. The movie has received attention for being critically acclaimed. Note that it involves nudity, sexual content, and profanity.
Summary of Kinsey
Liam Neeson gives a bravura performance as the title character in KINSEY, which details the controversial and dramatic rise of sex researcher Alfred C. Kinsey. Raised in a sexually repressed household with a preacher father (John Lithgow) who believes the zipper is the devil's work, young Kinsey goes against his father's wishes and studies biology, eventually becoming a leading authority on the gall wasp. His skill at classification, organization, and research, combined with his own burgeoning sexuality following his marriage to Clara McMillen (Laura Linney), leads him to begin investigating the nature of human sexuality. Working at Indiana University, Kinsey finds that sex is something many Americans have been waiting a long time to talk about. Unfortunately, others consider his work to be disgusting and want it ended. Writer-director Bill Condon (GODS AND MONSTERS) alternates between short black-and-white scenes of Kinsey answering his own sex survey questions, with longer color scenes that flash back to the important moments of his life. Kinsey's boyhood through his formative years, and his obsessions with the gall wasp and human sexual behavior, are thoroughly documented. The publication of the seminal books SEXUAL BEHAVIOR IN THE HUMAN MALE (1948) and SEXUAL BEHAVIOR IN THE HUMAN FEMALE (1953) mark his primary achievements. Interestingly, it is the second book that causes the biggest panic, as a repressed society refuses to believe that women have the same needs and desires as men. Neeson and Linney make a wonderfully refreshing couple, freely sharing each other for all to see. Peter Sarsgaard, Chris O'Donnell, and Timothy Hutton lend fine supporting work as Kinsey's staff. KINSEY is an enlightening, engaging, yet frightening film, revealing how far the understanding of American sexuality has come--and how far it still has to go.
Details
| Language: | English, Slovenian |
| Country: | USA, Germany |
| Release date: | 4 September 2004 |
| Runtime: | 118 min |
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as Alfred Kinsey
as Clara McMillen
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Critics Reviews
The New York Times
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- by: Dana Stevens
Entertainment Weekly
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- by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
Users Reviews
- 10.May.2011
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- by: huxr
- huxr rated this movie
9/10Amazing
- 24.January.2011
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- by: trustella
- trustella rated this movie
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