Kinsey (2004)
Coming Out at 7 January 2005 in theaters.
Biography, Drama, Romance
Kinsey is biographical drama film written and directed by Bill Condon. It describes the life of Alfred Charles Kinsey (played by Liam Neeson), a pioneer in the area of sexology. His 1948 publication, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (the first of the Kinsey Reports) was one of the first recorded works that tried to scientifically address and investigate sexual behavior in humans. The film also stars Laura Linney (in a performance nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress), Chris O’Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Timothy Hutton, John Lithgow, Tim Curry, and Oliver Platt.
Professor Alfred Kinsey is interviewed about his sexual history. Interspersed with the interview are flashbacks from his childhood and young-adulthood. The young child years show his father, a lay minister of the Methodist church, denouncing modern inventions as leading to sexual sin, then in early adolescence, humiliating Kinsey in a store by denouncing its keeper for showing him cigarettes, while his adolescence shows his experiences as a Boy Scout and a late teenage scene shows Kinsey disappointing his father by his chosen vocational intentions. The adult Kinsey teaches at Indiana University as a professor of biology lecturing on gall wasps.
Kinsey falls in love with a student in his class, whom he calls Mac, and marries her. Consummation of their marriage is difficult at first, because of a medical problem Mac has that is fixed easily with minor surgery. At the university, Professor Kinsey, who is affectionately called “Prok” by his graduate students, meets with them after hours to offer individual sexual advice.
Director: Bill Condon
Writer: Bill Condon
Stars: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O’Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Timothy Hutton, John Lithgow, Tim Curry
Cast:
| Liam Neeson | … | Alfred Kinsey |
| Laura Linney | … | Clara McMillen |
| Chris O’Donnell | … | Wardell Pomeroy |
| Peter Sarsgaard | … | Clyde Martin |
| Timothy Hutton | … | Paul Gebhard |
| John Lithgow | … | Alfred Seguine Kinsey |
| Tim Curry | … | Thurman Rice |
| Oliver Platt | … | Herman Wells |
| Dylan Baker | … | Alan Gregg |
| Julianne Nicholson | … | Alice Martin |
| William Sadler | … | Kenneth Braun |
| John McMartin | … | Huntington Hartford |
| Veronica Cartwright | … | Sara Kinsey |
| Kathleen Chalfant | … | Barbara Merkle |
| Heather Goldenhersh | … | Martha Pomeroy |
| Dagmara Dominczyk | … | Agnes Gebhard |
| Harley Cross | … | Young Man in Gay Bar |
| Susan Blommaert | … | Staff Secretary |
| Benjamin Walker | … | Kinsey at 19 |
| Matthew Fahey | … | Kinsey at 14 |
| Will Denton | … | Kinsey at 10 |
| John Krasinski | … | Ben |
| Arden Myrin | … | Emily |
| Romulus Linney | … | Rep B. Carroll Reece |
| Katharine Houghton | … | Mrs. Spaulding |
| David Harbour | … | Robert Kinsey |
| Judith J.K. Polson | … | Mildred Kinsey |
| Leigh Spofford | … | Anne Kinsey |
| Jenna Gavigan | … | Joan Kinsey |
| Luke Macfarlane | … | Bruce Kinsey |
| Mike Thurstlic | … | Kenneth Hand |
| Jarlath Conroy | … | Grocer |
| Bill Buell | … | Dr. Thomas Lattimore |
| Michelle Federer | … | Gall Wasp Class Coed |
| Alvin Keith | … | Black Student |
| Amy Wilson | … | Marriage Class Coed |
| Maryellen Owens | … | Female Assistant Professor |
| Roderick Hill | … | Clerical Worker |
| Peg Small | … | Retired Teacher |
| Don Sparks | … | Middle-aged Businessman |
| Joe Zaloom | … | Janitor |
Sources: imdb & wikipedia