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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543178682
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Limited Edition, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 17, 2005
Running Time: 118 minutes
Sales Rank: 26613
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
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Liam Neeson stars as Alfred Kinsey, a man driven by scientific passion and personal demons to investigate the elusive mystery of human sexuality. Laura Linney garnered a Best Actress Oscar® nomination for her compelling performance as Kinsey?s free-thinking wife. This provocative drama dares to lift the veil of shame from a society in which sex was hidden, knowledge was dangerous and talking about it was the ultimate taboo.
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One of the best films of 2004, Kinsey pays tribute to the flawed but honorable man who revolutionized our understanding of human sexuality. As played by Liam Neeson in writer-director Bill Condon's excellent film biography, Indiana University researcher Alfred Kinsey was so consumed by statistical measurements of human sexual activity that he almost completely overlooked the substantial role of emotions and their effect on human behavior. This made him an ideal researcher and science celebrity who revealed that sexual behaviors previously considered deviant and even harmful (homosexuality, oral sex, etc.) are in fact common and essentially normal in the realm of human experience, but whose obsession with scientific method frequently placed him at odds with his understanding wife (superbly played by Laura Linney) and research assistants. In presenting Kinsey as a driven social misfit, Condon's film gives Neeson one of his finest roles while revealing the depth of Kinsey's own humanity, and the incalculable benefit his research had on our collective sexual enlightenment. With humor, charm, and intelligence, Kinsey shines a light where darkness once prevailed. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating:  - An eyebrow-raising, head turning film that will leave you speechless...
It's funny to me that in the year that has been labeled `the year of the biopic' it was the better of them all that was shunned by Oscar. Sure, `Kinsey' is a very blunt and somewhat offensive biopic, but it is one of the better crafted and superbly constructed of the many that were dropped on us in 2004. It is superior to `Finding Neverland' in the acting department; it is superior to `The Aviator' is its ability to grasp the sense of character and it is superior to `Ray' in its technical construction, allowing the audience to delve into Alfred Kinsey without hesitation. The three aforementioned films all received a Best Picture nomination at the 2004 Oscars, and while I can't say that I would have nominated any of these films in that category (such a strong year fro film) I can honestly say that `Kinsey' is the better film overall*.
The film tells the story of Alfred Kinsey, a professor who indulged his own sensual cravings by creating a study of human sensuality (it's really hard to write a review about this film when the most harmless of descriptive words can get your review banned). His strict religious parents are much apposed to his lifestyle but this doesn't stop him from exploring a subject that so many see as taboo. Enlisting the help of some eager young students (not to mention his understanding yet suppressed wife Clara) Kinsey interviews thousands of men and women for his study, asking very frank yet very pertinent questions.
The film is much more than a ... Read More
Rating:  - So-so
Kinsey, the 2004 biopic from director Bill Condon, was not nearly as bad a film as I thought it might be. That said, it's not a particularly good film, either. This is the follow up film to Condon's Gods And Monsters, and where that film, about Frankenstein director James Whale, made the good choice to focus only on a small portion of its subject's life, this film, again, makes the predictable error of trying to be far too encompassing. It also is awash in Freudian psychobabble, trying to pin sex researcher Alfred Kinsey's sex obsession on, variously, his stern father (John Lithgow, who was woefully miscast)- who is later revealed as having suffered sexual humiliation for a boyhood masturbation fetish, his sexually inexperienced wife Clara McMillen- aka Mac (Laura Linney), and his own latent bisexuality, among many causes. Kinsey's sex research from the middle of last century has made both it and its compiler the subject of controversy. The fallacious claims he made about ten percent of the population being homosexual have long been debunked, and serious errors he made in compiling information, as well as poorly selected study subjects is well known. However, discrediting the man's scientific prowess has not been enough for many on the reactionary Right. Latter day myths about Kinsey's involvement in pedophilia and child abuse in researching childhood sexuality have no basis in fact, and the person, Dr. Judith Reisman, who first made the claims in 1981, then followed up with a whole 1990 book, called ... Read More
Rating: - Fighting Ignorance
Fantastic movie about fighting ignorance about sex in the 1950s. Shows what one person is capable of!
Rating: - To Some a Hero, To Others a Villain...
but it can't be denied that Dr. Alfred Kinsey made some important contributions in our understanding of Sexuality. This movie probably glosses over and rounds off some of the hard edges of the man and his work.
Liam Neeson and Laura Linney play their parts superbly. What struck me the most about this film was the way Kinsey doggedly and dogmatically went about his research-perfecting it in every way as the years went by. His first volume "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" was probably accepted better than his follow-up "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female" because America was a little more apt to admit that the men were, well just being men. But when histories came out about women, it was shocking and scandalous. I mean, didn't people think that females were so very different than men? While I do believe there are subtle nuances between the two sexes, I think we are probably more alike than we like to admit, whether in 1948 or 2008.
If Kinsey pushed the door open half-way with his work, the sexual revolution of the 1960's and the discovery of the birth control pill smashed it to pieces. And where are we today? I think it is a mixed bag. Certainly to be more comfortable with our bodies, feelings etc., is a good thing. Also the obnoxious moralizing from the Victorian era is largely a thing of the past. By and large we seem more comfortable with ourselves. We now know of the agendas of the closed-minded people who claimed to speak under the seal and shield of God and ... Read More
Rating: - Two-Disc DVD Set Showcases How the Sexual Revolution Began in a Fascinating Biopic
Since its publication sixty years ago, the first Kinsey Report (real title: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male) has taken on mythic proportions for its groundbreaking look at never-before-examined human sexual habits. Dr. Alfred Kinsey is certainly worthy of a film biopic, and writer-director Bill Condon embraces the idea with a healthy respect for his subject, a strong sense of period atmosphere, and the same wry sense of humor he displayed in his fanciful James Whale tale, Gods and Monsters. Condon effectively uses as a black-and-white framing device, the preparation for the interview process by which Kinsey and his staff surveyed people about their sexual habits. The director shows how Kinsey painstakingly teaches his research team how to get their hundreds of interview subjects to open up and speak freely about their sexual histories and as a result, revolutionized the way we think about sex. The 2004 film doesn't shy away from the double standards that exist to this day regarding the candor and explicitness of Kinsey's findings.
What resonates most is how Kinsey strove to break down barriers and taboos and social conventions, while continuing to be a flashpoint for the religious right as the instigator of the sexual revolution and the downfall of morality. The acting by the two leads is superb and unexpected. Liam Neeson gives a fierce and fearless performance in the title role, an obsessive-compulsive biologist who doesn't bat an eyelash when he translates the methodology he used in studying ... Read More
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