Best movie ever!

Admirable film.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Kinsey suffered under his strictly moral religious father (John Lithgow). In Indiana University, student Clara 'Mac' McMillen (Laura Linney) is fascinated by professor Kinsey. Eventually they get married. Kinsey starts sex education but he finds the knowledge limited. He starts researching human sexuality with associate Clyde Martin (Peter Sarsgaard). First Kinsey has sex with Clyde and then Mac. Wardell Pomeroy (Chris O'Donnell) and Paul Gebhard (Timothy Hutton) join in the research team.It's an interesting history. Kinsey is an oddball and he annoys me quite a bit. I like his relationship with Mac. The movie would be more appealing as a relationship movie. In the end, I don't really like Kinsey and I don't like what he does to Mac. I'm uncertain whether I like this movie or not.

Prior to watching this film, I was only nominally familiar with Alfred Kinsey and his life's work. Now, having seen it, KINSEY provides an interesting look at a man who devoted his life's work to probing the depths of human sexuality. Although Kinsey started his career as a zoologist who studied gall wasps, he later discovered that people provided just as interesting a field of study. The film, although it does cover some of his early life, is primarily focused on the landmark sex study that he began in the late 1940's. One thing that surprised me was just how funny the film was at times, but there just as many moments that struck an poignant emotional chord as well. And of course, Liam Neeson kills it as Alfred Kinsey. This is probably the best role I've ever seen him in. And Laura Linney does just as well playing his wife. Another great aspect of the film is the writing, which was tight, smart and had great attention to character. I also liked how it put America's hangups with sexuality right out front for all to see just how ridiculously prude we can be, just like Kinsey did with his study. It might be a little sad, but there is still a significant cross-section of Americans that remain set in their ways. Maybe someone should show them this film and see if they have a change of heart. Ultimately, though, the film is most effective as a biopic, and a thoroughly engrossing one at that. If you're looking for a biopic on a lesser-known subject, or want to see one of Liam Neeson's best (and probably least seen) performances, then KINSEY should do just fine.

The sexual revolution as we know it got jump started by the man whom this film is about. Alfred Kinsey may not have been the first man to study sex in the abstract, but he certainly was the first man who became widely popular for doing so.No doubt his interest in sex was a product of his reaction to his Puritan like father John Lithgow who has made roles like the senior Kinsey a real treat ever since his portrayal as a fundamentalist reverend in Footloose. What kid hasn't wanted to explore forbidden knowledge after some religious authority told them it was a no-no. All that Kinsey did was explore far more than others had done and published his controversial findings.Liam Neeson plays Alfred Kinsey the patient researcher and biologist who did nothing less than revolutionize traditional mores to their foundation. His portrayal is restrained and dignified. Not really gone into is the fact that Kinsey was bisexual and did have a relationship with the character that Timothy Hutton plays.Not so with Laura Linney who gained an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress as Mrs. Kinsey. Off the bat she tells him she believes in free love and proves it with Chris O'Donnell while married to Neeson. He's not minding at all though, the work comes first with him.Linney is the one you'll most remember, but Neeson and the rest give spirited performances and breathe life into the father of the sexual revolution for the silver screen.

Kinsey indeed did the nation a favor when he published his studies of the sex habits of the American male and female and the nation finally got a chance to see what was actually being done sexually versus the repressive conventions of the times that had many people believing that they were sexually abnormal. However, if the facts of the movie are largely true, it seems that Kinsey fell victim to the same basic fallacy as Ayn Rand. Kinsey seemed to believe that just because something - in this case sex - can be described and studied objectively, that it can and should be practiced objectively. For example, Kinsey plunged into a homosexual affair with his assistant - with his wife's full knowledge - because he wanted to explore a side of himself he felt he had been repressing. His wife seems quite hurt by the revelation, but later she embarks on an affair with the same assistant when he tires of her husband,apparently with Kinsey's encouragement. Maybe this worked for the Kinseys, but for most people this type of behavior would break a relationship. It also seemed odd that Kinsey was as insistent and preachy about adults being sexually liberated as his father had been with the opposite viewpoint, ultimately alienating his own son just as his father had alienated him.In the long run Kinsey's work was key to decriminalizing all kinds of sexual behavior that had been considered deviant up to that time. Because, as Kinsey states, "Everybody's sin is nobody's sin. And everybody's crime is no crime at all". This film was a very balanced and frank biopic of Dr. Kinsey, in my opinion.