Kinsey

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Kinsey

R

2004

1h 58m

Biography

History

Drama

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Biology professor Alfred Kinsey has a perfectly respectable life teaching and doing research at Indiana University along with a happy home life with his wife. When he realizes that his students, many of them married and with children, still come to him with personal questions about human sexuality, he fights to begin teaching sex education courses and conducts extensive interviews about the sexual history of volunteers despite high-profile opposition.

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

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David Ansen

Newsweek

03/13/2018

For a movie so frank and explicit, Kinsey has a soft spirit...Kinsey is a celebration of diversity; it's about the solace knowledge can bring.

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Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

12/24/2010

4/5

Great movie, but not for kids.

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Stella Papamichael

BBC.com

01/07/2008

4/5

He's a terribly flawed man but instead of soapy histrionics, Condon underlines the tragedy with outrageous humour.

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Jack Hawkins

HeyUGuys

01/13/2021

5/5

Historical films should serve to reanimate the past with honesty, insight and a certain degree of entertainment,Bill Condon's Kinsey is a preeminent example of this, and it also has the uncommon distinction of real, unadulterated accuracy.

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

09/13/2020

3.5/4.0

With honesty, frankness and explicit authenticity Kinsey becomes one of 2004's best pictures.

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David N. Butterworth

rec.arts.movies.reviews

09/05/2015

2.5/4

"Kinsey," like the pioneering sex researcher profiled therein, reduces its subject to a bit of a dry academic exercise.

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Al A

@RT36830200 Apr 7

Creepy celebration of the life of a wretched child moIester.

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Jack F

@MovieFan111 Feb 13

I thought it was interesting and informative. I've never heard of him before. Honestly, I'm surprised it didn't get an NC-17.

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Tim M

@tgmacman Dec 12

Titillating the viewer with endlessly engaging dialogues on its topic, Kinsey's intellect is more than enough to offset its shortcomings.

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Miles R

@RT77938783 03/28/2025

What a great movie! I enjoyed the humor, and the development of Dr Kinsey as a character. What a smart flick!

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Frank F

@RT63824254 02/05/2025

It’s a pornographic and disgusting

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Tom F

@RT55173143 07/06/2024

A useful look at the subject in a Wikipedia entry sort of way and a reminder that attempts to validate anything other than purely binary relationships will always make people uncomfortable. Otherwise, not particularly interesting.

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Synopsis

Biology professor Alfred Kinsey has a perfectly respectable life teaching and doing research at Indiana University along with a happy home life with his wife. When he realizes that his students, many of them married and with children, still come to him with personal questions about human sexuality, he fights to begin teaching sex education courses and conducts extensive interviews about the sexual history of volunteers despite high-profile opposition.

Director: Bill Condon
Producer: Gail Mutrux
Screenwriter: Bill Condon
Distributor: Fox
Production Co: American Zoetrope
Rating: R
Genre: Biography, History, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 12, 2004, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $10.2M
Runtime: 1h 58m
Sound Mix: Dolby SRD
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)