SYNOPSIS

Academy Award-winner Bill Condon (GODS AND MONSTERS) turns the microscope on Alfred Kinsey in a portrait of a man driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endeavor soon takes on an intensely personal relevance, ultimately becoming an unexpected journey into the mystery of human behavior.

Liam Neeson stars as Kinsey, who in 1948 irrevocably changed American culture with his book Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. Interviewing thousands of people about the most intimate aspects of their lives, Kinsey lifted the weight of secrecy and shame from a society in which sexual practices were mostly hidden. His work sparked one of the most intense cultural debates of the past century — a debate that rages on today.

Using the technique of his own famous sex interviews, KINSEY recounts the scientist’s extraordinary journey from obscurity to global fame. Alfred Kinsey grows up the son of an engineering teacher and occasional Sunday school preacher (John Lithgow). Rebelling against the rigid piety of his home life, and drawn to the world of the senses, Kinsey becomes a Harvard-educated zoologist specializing in the study of gall wasps.


TRAILER


RELEASE DATE

March 04, 2005

DIRECTOR

Bill Condon

WRITER

Bill Condon

COMPANY

20th Century Fox

GENRE

Biography, Drama

CERT

15

RUNTIME

118 minutes

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