Did you people see the same film I saw?

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

I first watched this movie back in 2004 and recently bought it for a great price. The movie is great, but a couple of scenes were kind of graphic. I'm surprised it didn't get an NC-17 rating due to some of the material. It is the 21ST century, but we are still a prudish/pro censorship society. I am not one who is easily shocked by sexual content, but one scene did make my jaw drop. When Kinsey( Liam Neeson) and Wardell Pomeroy interviewed Braun( William Sadler). I thought it was tasteless, should have been cut since it was such a small part anyway. I did think the whole scene was unnecessary. I'm just saying it could of been done more tastefully. The rest of the movie I thought was terrific, and very interesting. Kinsey was not afraid to talk about sex in that era, and to publish books about human sexuality was bold.Alfred Kinsey(Liam Neeson) had no desire to be a biologist. He wanted to follow in his father's footsteps to become an engineer. One day on an Eagle Scout trip his friend had a personal talk with him about self pleasure. I believe at this point he started to change his mind about his career choice. He starts to fall in love with nature/biology. This movie takes us into his past and we notice his father is a stern man and his mother a kind and gentle woman. Alferd Kinsey Sr.(John Lithgow) is one who is controlling and abusive. His mother Sara Kinsey( Veronica Cartright) is a loving woman who just wants her son to do well. She seems she has been abused by Al, due to her body language. So Kinsey does not get along with dad, and gravitates more towards mom. As the years proceed Kinsey graduates at the top of his class where he studies biology/psychology. He begins his career studying gall wasps. Eventually this leads him to Indiana University as a assistant professor of Zoology. When he becomes a professor he meets one of his students Clara Bracken McMillian( Laura Linney). They eventually get married, have a family, and Kinsey starts to teach a class on Human Sexuality. Kinsey's class is only open to married couples, but everyone wants in. In the 30's especially in school sex was taboo. We see this in the movie when Thurman Rice( Tim Curry) explains there is no need to a sexuality class since he covers abstinence in his hygiene class. Kinsey has three assistants working with him. His 1ST assist is Clyde Martain(Peter Sarsgaard), Wardell Pomeroy( Chris O'Donnell), and Paul Gebhard(Timothy Hutton) they all begin with a 300page questionnaire on sex This eventually goes nationwide covering topics on sex. He travels with Clyde interviews heterosexuals, homosexuals, discusses views about open marriages, ETC.. His career is taking off, and his next step is to publish books about the topic. His first book Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, then Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. During this he conducts more studies, his work become more popular than ever.During a Customs check at the airport sexual material was discovered in a box shipped to him. This is where problems begin for him. It seems nobody wants to help with funding his research; and lack of funds mean studies can't proceed. He tries very hard, but this time he is shunned. During this time Congressional Hearings begin and his research is viewed Un-American. As I watched the movie I thought America just wasn't ready for the openness on sex; and sometimes today I still get that feeling. If you ask me Kinsey was way ahead of his time. He just wanted to teach and educate Americans on sex, not be perverted about it.I liked this movie due to the true story of Kinsey's life. It also had one of my favorite actors in it Liam Neeson, but the whole cast did a wonderful job. I will say this movie is not for everybody, due to the subject matter, but if you had biology you should be able to handle it.THX, Kris L. CocKayne

This was good- interesting. I thought Liam Neeson was excellent, as was the entire cast (Peter Sarsgaard, Chris O'Donnell, John Lithgow, Oliver Platt, Timothy Hutton) which also includes an Oscar nomination for Laura Linney as Kinsey's freethinking wife.The movie is provocative and intelligent, scientific not sexy and will make you laugh but also squirm at times and wonder how Alfred Kinsey ever managed to get his book "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" published at a time (1948) when sex was generally misunderstood and very taboo. Everyone seemed to be asking "am I normal?".Using the technique of his own famous sex interviews, the movie uncovers the secrets of a nation while recounting the scientist's extraordinary journey from oppressed obscurity to pioneer in the area of human research, to global fame. Kinsey was responsible for the start of the sexual revolution, changed American culture and created a media sensation with his book -before they turned on him. 11/23/14

Kinsey examines the work and methodology of human sexuality by Professor Alfred Kinsey (Liam Neeson) whose publication took 1940s America by storm and also aroused controversy.The film tries to take a scientific approach to human sexuality and hence tries to take a detached, clinical approach to the story in order to make the subject of sex impersonal. However in doing this they rather made the characters in the film impersonal as well which was probably not the writer/director Bill Condon's intention.The film has an interesting opening but when you see Kinsey as an adult its clear that Neeson is too old to play Kinsey in his 20s and it seems they have given him some helium to make his voice lighter for that part of the film.As a biopic its breezy enough but I felt it was shallow. There is very little we know about the man or his wife after the film ends. One moment we see his kids as teenagers and then they disappear, we see some resolve with his horrible father who unloads a childhood trauma when interviewed by his son and that is it. Its almost film as a fast food serving. One moment Kinsey is the toast of the town, his book is a bestseller and then he is a pariah, losing funding and J Edgar Hoover after him.The film is competently acted although Neeson does well as the older Kinsey rather than the younger version. John Lithgow impresses in the early scenes of the film.

As someone on the autistic spectrum interested in how it motivates study and interest in topics, after reading speculations that Kinsey might have been on the spectrum, I wanted to check this movie out.I was not disappointed: it's a fine portrayal of a great scientist's life work; Neeson and Linney act the role of the couple and the ups and downs of their lifes' relationship and sharing in the research in an extremely empathy-raising way. Like 'A Beautiful Mind', 'The Social Network' and 'The Man in the White Suit' it's one of those movies that unconsciously celebrates the nature of the AS personality and for me, these are great feel-good movies. I find it's the human story of Kinsey and Mac that's the movie's strong point because the film making as other reviewers before said, is fairly pedestrian.A well watched DVD in my collection and a good film for anyone interested in science and the nature of research. However this is not a topic for everyone.