FILM REVIEW
Kinsey
Director: Bill Condon
Cast: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell,
Timothy Hutton, John Lithgow
Classification: 16SNL
Running Time: 118min
Opens On: 15 Apr 2005
Academy Award-winner Bill Condon ("Gods and Monsters," "Chicago")
explores the life of the pioneer of human sexuality research, Alfred
Kinsey (Neeson). Spanning six decades from his childhood in the early
1900s to his death in 1956, the film turns the microscope on the man whose
landmark studies on the sexual behaviours of the common man rocked a
nation. The interviewer of tens of thousands, Kinsey subjected his own
life and that of his researchers to the same type of analysis that
produced his 1948 best-selling book "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male."
But while the Kinsey team's focus was predominantly outward, perhaps what
they learned about themselves was as great as that which they taught their
country.
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