KINSEY Notes
Alfred Kinsey (1894-1956) and his wife Clara had four children. Only three are shown in Bill Condon’s biopic Kinsey. Their firstborn, Don, died from diabetes shortly before his fifth birthday. Clara Kinsey died in 1982 at the age of 83.
In the film, Clyde Martin (Peter Sarsgaard) is seen seducing Alfred Kinsey. According to Kinsey’s biographers, Kinsey pursued Clyde, who became the researcher’s somewhat reluctant sex partner.
Kinsey never saw his father after his parents divorced. In the film, Kinsey is shown at his father’s home after his mother dies.
Indiana University came up with the money necessary to fund Kinsey’s research after the Rockefeller Foundation withdrew its support due to pressure from right-wing and religious leaders. In the film, the [...]
by Andre Soares | October 14, 2004
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Tags: Alfred Kinsey, Bill Condon, Clara Kinsey, John Bancroft, Kinsey, Kinsey Institute, Liam Neeson, Martin Duberman, Sex, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
KINSEY II – Liam Neeson
KINSEY Review: Part I
Like the controversial hero of another biopic, Dustin Hoffman’s Lenny Bruce in Lenny, Kinsey is ostracized because he dares tell the uncomfortable truth to a hypocritical society that wants none of it. But unlike Hoffman’s neurotic and abrasive stand-up comedian, Condon’s Kinsey is an eccentric but wholly likable fellow. And therein lies the film’s biggest flaw.
Since this is a (mostly) American movie, we can accept hunky Liam Neeson playing the role of the hound-faced Alfred Kinsey, a carbon copy of actor Tom Ewell (the quasi-errant husband in The Seven Year Itch). But it is difficult to accept a sex-obsessed hero who is hardly ever shown enjoying the pleasures of sex. Even if Kinsey was more interested in [...]
by Andre Soares | October 14, 2004
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Tags: Alfred Kinsey, Bill Condon, Film Reviews, Gay Interest, Kinsey, Laura Linney, Liam Neeson, Lynn Redgrave, Sex, Timothy Hutton
KINSEY d: Bill Condon
Kinsey (2004)
Direction and screenplay: Bill Condon (There’s a "thank you" credit to Kinsey biographer Johnathan Gathorne-Hardy and his book, Kinsey: Sex the Measure of All Things)
Cast: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O’Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Timothy Hutton, John Lithgow, Tim Curry, Oliver Platt, Lynn Redgrave
At one point in Kinsey, Liam Neeson’s polemical Dr. Alfred Kinsey tells a reporter that it would be "useless" to make a film of his 1948 tome on male sexuality. Be that as it may, even Kinsey himself would probably have recognized that his difficult, extraordinary life could well be the stuff that great movies are made of. Writer-director Bill Condon surely thinks so, and his Kinsey is an honorable attempt to portray the [...]
by Andre Soares | October 14, 2004
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Tags: Alfred Kinsey, Bill Condon, Biopic, Chris O'Donnell, Film Reviews, Gay Interest, Kinsey, Laura Linney, Liam Neeson, Oscar 2004, Oscar Movies, Peter Sarsgaard, Sex
