Kinsey
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Bill Condon
Liam Neeson
Laura Linney
Chris O'donnell
Peter Sarsgaard
Timothy Hutton
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
While Alfred C. Kinsey, a zoology professor at Indiana University, trains three assistants to interview people for a new study, their questions prompt him to recount his life: Throughout his childhood, Kinsey, his mother Sara, brother Robert and sister Mildred are dominated by his strict, bullying father, Alfred Seguine Kinsey. During his Sunday school lectures, the elder Kinsey, a devout Methodist and college professor, rails against any sort of immorality. As a boy Kinsey suffers from debilitating illnesses and it is not until a doctor prescribes walks in the woods that he recovers his health. Kinsey discovers a passionate love of biology on his hikes, which enable him to escape the stifling atmosphere at home. One day, the teenaged Kinsey, now an Eagle Scout, confesses to a friend that although he wants to study biology, his father has decreed that he become an engineer. Kinsey's unhappiness is heightened by his sexual frustration, as his religious upbringing has made him feel ashamed of all sexual urges, including masturbation. Finally, unable to bear his father's inflexible code of morality, Kinsey lashes out, announcing that he has quit the college at which his father teaches. Although his father pronounces him a disappointment, Kinsey thrives and becomes an assistant zoology professor at Indiana University, where over the years he amasses a huge collection of gall wasps and becomes a renowned entomologist. During one of his lectures, his enthusiasm for his subject piques the curiosity of student Clara "Mac" McMillen. Mac approaches the socially awkward Kinsey one afternoon, and later, as he fixes her a picnic, he shyly relates that his graduate students have nicknamed him "Prok," an abbreviation of Professor Kinsey. Soon Kinsey falls in love with Mac, an intelligent "free-thinker" who enjoys nature and biology. Kinsey is crushed when Mac does not accept his marriage proposal, telling him that she finds him "too churchy," but eventually Mac changes her mind and they are married. On their wedding night, the two virgins are so sexually unaware that their attempt to consummate their marriage is a dismal failure. The next evening, while they dine with Kinsey's parents, Mac tries to defend her husband against his father's belittling by revealing that his new biology textbook is used throughout the country. Later that night, Kinsey's laughter over his father turns to tears, and Mac comforts him by telling him how much she loves him. Suddenly realizing that they can overcome their sexual difficulties by consulting an expert, Kinsey jumps out of bed and packs their suitcases. Soon after, a doctor explains that Mac's thick hymen impeded their union, and after the problem is corrected, the couple enjoy an active, joyful sex life. Their first daughter, Anne, is born in 1923, and by the time their children Joan and Bruce are born, Kinsey and Mac have cemented their firm partnership. Kinsey becomes known throughout the university for offering advice about sex to married students, and one afternoon, is amazed by the ignorance of a couple who come to him for help. When Kinsey discusses the situation with Mac, he blames societal misconceptions about sex on the lack of scientific studies on the subject. That evening, the university's new president, Herman Wells, hosts a party celebrating the publication of Kinsey's new book about gall wasps and Kinsey grimly realizes from Herman's inability to grasp the subject how overly specialized his work of twenty years has been. During the party, Kinsey upbraids his colleague, Dr. Thurman Rice, for the ineffectualness of his hygiene course and tells Herman that the university must offer a class on sexuality. Although Herman is cautious, after he attends one of Rice's insipid lectures, he agrees to Kinsey's suggestion. Soon Kinsey's lecture hall is overflowing with students eager to take his "marriage course," during which he offers basic biology instruction and frank information about sex. Especially impressed by Kinsey's dynamic, nonjudgmental attitude is student Clyde Martin, who becomes Kinsey's assistant. Kinsey asks his students to fill out questionaires in order to build statistical data about the sex lives of typical Americans, and Clyde, who is open about his past relationships with both men and women, suggests that people would be more willing to confide their secrets to him if he were to talk to them confidentially rather than ask them to commit their private lives to paper. Clyde's suggestion inspires Kinsey to approach different groups in person, and one evening, after Clyde and Kinsey have visited a bar for homosexuals in Chicago as part of their study, Clyde asks Kinsey about his own feelings toward homosexuality. Kinsey admits that as he has gotten older, he realizes that he is bisexual, then responds passionately when Clyde kisses him. Kinsey, not wishing to keep anything from Mac, tells her of his affair with the younger man, and although Mac is hurt, she realizes that she has always been aware of Kinsey's possible bisexuality. As their work progresses, Clyde becomes a member of the family as his affair with Kinsey continues until one day, he announces that he would like to sleep with Mac instead. Forced to prove his belief that sex does not have to involve love nor interfere with it, Kinsey accepts Mac's new relationship with Clyde. In class, Kinsey continues to lecture that it is injurious to allow religious morality to dictate what is considered "normal." In order to expand his studies, Kinsey seeks a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, and despite the initial reluctance of administrator Alan Gregg, the grant is secured and Kinsey hires two scientists, Wardell Pomeroy and Paul Gebhard. Kinsey trains them and Clyde in how to take sexual histories using a specialized code that only they can decipher. Using a nonjudgmental, friendly approach, they spend several years amassing thousands of sex histories throughout the United States, and in 1948, Kinsey's groundbreaking book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male , is published. Kinsey is lauded for his enlightening work, although Alan cautions him when the scientist calls for the reformation of laws governing sex acts. Alan also expresses concern about Kinsey's new studies into female sexuality, and Kinsey admits that he and his team have been using movie and still cameras to record sex acts. Unknown to Alan, Kinsey encourages his assistants and their wives to experiment with different partners, and Kinsey and Mac also participate in the movies recording sexual encounters. When the Rockefeller Foundation gives him another grant, Kinsey establishes the Institute for Sex Research at the university, but after his companion book about female sexuality is published, Kinsey is vilified by academics and the public. Baffled by the hypocrisy, Kinsey is further infuriated when U.S. Customs seizes a shipment of erotic images and artifacts that he has bought for the institute's collection. As the government begins to investigate rumors that Kinsey is involved with Communists, he must battle the Customs department in an expensive court case. Desperate to distance the foundation from Kinsey, Alan discontinues his grant, while Herman is unable to obtain funding for Kinsey from the university's board of trustees. Disillusioned and overworked, Kinsey suffers a heart attack. As Mac helps him recuperate, she continues to encourage him, although he laments that he cannot help the thousands of people who still write to him seeking advice. Kinsey and Mac travel to San Francisco to meet grocery store heir Huntington Hartford, but the eccentric millionaire refuses to fund Kinsey's research for further volumes, declaring that it is too controversial. The next morning, Kinsey takes one last sex history before leaving, and the woman he interviews describes her despair upon realizing that she was attracted to another woman. After reading Kinsey's book on female sexuality, however, she says, she realized that there were many women like her and consequently has been in a committed relationship with another woman for three years. When she thanks him for saving her life, Kinsey realizes how valuable his work has been. Kinsey and Mac then stop in a redwood forest on their way to the airport, and Kinsey, re-energized by the woman's story, as well as by his love for nature and Mac, tells his wife that they have much work left to do.
Director
Bill Condon
Cast
Liam Neeson
Laura Linney
Chris O'donnell
Peter Sarsgaard
Timothy Hutton
John Lithgow
Tim Curry
Oliver Platt
Dylan Baker
Julianne Nicholson
William Sadler
John Mcmartin
Veronica Cartwright
Kathleen Chalfant
Heather Goldenhersh
Dagmara Dominczyk
Harley Cross
Susan Blommaert
Benjamin Walker
Matthew Fahey
Will Denton
John Krasinski
Arden Myrin
Romulus Linney
Katharine Houghton
David Harbour
Judith J. K. Polson
Leigh Spofford
Jenna Gavigan
Thomas Luke Macfarlane
Mike Thurstlic
Jarlath Conroy
Bill Buell
Michele Federer
Alvin Keith
Amy Wilson
Maryellen Owens
Roderick Hill
Peg Small
Don Sparks
Joe Zaloom
Kate Reinders
Mara Hobel
Jason Patrick Sands
Lindsay Schmidt
Marcel Simoneau
Bobby Steggert
Johnny Pruitt
John Epperson
Jefferson Mays
Mark Mineart
Martin Murphy
Kate Jennings Grant
Barry Del Sherman
Fred Burrell
Michael Arkin
Daniel Ziskie
Tuck Milligan
Edwin Mcdonough
John Ellison Conlee
Arthur French
Chandler Williams
Jaime Roman Tirelli
Draper Shreeve
Phillip Kushner
Joe Badalucco
Henrietta Mantooth
Doris Smith
Reno
Pascale Armand
Sean Skelton
Steven Edward Hart
Clifford David
Randy Redd
Lynn Redgrave
Crew
Aina Abiodun
Mike Adkisson
George Aguilar
Thomas Ahlers
Douglas Aibel
William Almeida
Robert A. Andres
Alexandra Arlango
Nadine Asin
Joann Atwood
Martin Avitia
Joe Badalucco
Gregg Barbanell
Nancy Barker
Alison Barton
Andrew Baseman
Kenny Becker
Angela Bellisio
Braden Belmonte
Jon Bernier
Ken Bichel
Martin Blasick
Sue Bodine
Ciara Bresnihan
Connie Brink Sr.
Lance Brown
Jim Bruce
Max Bruch
Roy Bryson
Peter Bundrick
Keith Bunting Jr.
Carter Burwell
Tony Campenni
Andrea Cannistraci
Mel Cannon
Patrick Capone
Laura Cass
Andy Cesana
Felix Chen
Fryderyk Chopin
Kathy Ciric
Annabel Clark
Josh Comen
Bill Condon
Laura Congleton
Stephen Consentino
Adam Cook
Eddie Cooley
Francis Ford Coppola
Blaise Corrigan
Kathryn Craig
J. R. Craigmile
Jen Crammer
Lamont Crawford
Ralph Crowley
Sara Curran
Mary Cybulski
Kirk D'amico
John Davenport
Valerie Dean
Anthony Dimeo
Justine Dolan-cote
Peter Donahue
J. Kevin Draves
Jamie Dunlap
Frederick Elmes
Robb Englin
Michael Farrow
Harriet Fidlow
Joni Finlay
Bruce Finlayson
Tony Finno
Nina Fiore
Maurice Fitzgerald
Sam Friedman
Jamie Gallagher
Elton Garcia
Jonathan Gathorne-hardy
Michael Geisler
Brian Godshall
Jude Gorjanc
Dennis Green
Kelly Lee Gregson
Richard Guay
Carlos Guerra
Paul Hackner
Ann Hadsell
Mindy Hall
Julie Hansen, Film Auditors, Inc.
Barbara Harris
Steve Harrow
Richard Hebrank
Deborah Hecht
Mo Henry, D. Bassett & Assoc.
Wayne Herndon
Andrew Hildebrand
Steven Jacobson
Meredith Jacobson Marciano
Kenton Jakub
Steven Kaminsky
Todd Kasow
Virginia Katz
Kevin Keefe
Lisa Kim
Scott Kincaid
Todd Kleitsch
Kim Krafsky
Michael Kuhn
Stephen Lang
Michael Laudati
Robert Levine
Eli Lichter-marck
Laura Lim
Eric Warren Lindemann
Chris Liscinsky
Clay Liversidge
Tom Lohmann
David Lott
Kimberly Lowe Voigt
Peter Lüke
Jonathan Lumley
Nicholas Lundy
Kim Maitland
Jon Manasse
Linda Martinez
Daniel May
Steve Mcauliff
Barbara Mcdermott
Caitlin Mcginty
Kati Meister
Hillary Meyer
Bruno Michels
Montez A. Monroe
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Melissa Mugavero
Gail Mutrux
Chris Navarro
Scott Nickoley
Hilary Niederer
Sarah Nuttall
T. J. O'mara
Mike Ocoboc
Emre Ozpirincci
Marlo Pabon
Daniel Paikin
Justin M. Pandolfino
Miichael Papadopoulos
Sandra Park
Dean Parker
John Patitucci
Tim Pedegana
Stephen Pederson
Linda Perkins
Jason Piatt
Frankie Pine
Cole Porter
Alex Raspa
Ken Regan
Deborah Ricketts
Guadalupe Rilova
Robert Rinehart
Jon Ringbom
Gary Ritchie
Malcolm Ritchie
Bobby Rock
Cara Rosenbloom
Jeffrey Sacino
Amy Safhay
Henri Sann
Jennifer Santucci
James Sarzotti
Todd Daniel Schechter
Diana Schmidt
Matt Schreiber
Francesco Sciarrone
Michael Scott
Tom Sevcofic
Stacey Shames
Steven Shellooe
Richard Sherman
Tom Shinn
Adam Shulman
Jean Sibelius
Alan Silverman
Chris Skutch
Mollie Smith
Clay Sparks
Alan Stepansky
Anita Sum
Pat Taistra
Jill Tandy
Amanda Taylor
Richard J. Tice
Cindy Tolan
Mark Van Rossen
Nicholas Vanderpool
Kristen Von Hoffman
Carla White
Nathan Whitehead
Deirdre Williams
Film Details
Technical Specs
Award Nominations
Best Supporting Actress
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
At the beginning of the film, black-and-white footage of "Alfred C. Kinsey," played by Liam Neeson, training his three assistants on techniques for taking sex histories is interspersed with color footage of Kinsey's early life as he answers their questions. Kinsey's wife, "Clara `Mac' McMillen," played by Laura Linney, also appears in the interview footage, which continues for approximately the first twenty minutes of the film. The opening and ending cast credits vary slightly in order. As the end credits roll, black-and-white footage of animals mating, obtained from the Kinsey Institute, is shown.
Among the individuals and groups thanked during the end credits are Indiana University, The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction and Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, the author of the book Sex, the Measure of All Things: A Life of Alfred C. Kinsey (Great Britain, 1998). According to the 2004 paperback edition of Gathorne-Hardy's book, it was the "factual and intellectual backing" for the picture. Also thanked in the picture's credits is documentary filmmaker Diane Ward, whose 1989 public television documentary, Sex and the Scientist, was used as source material for Kinsey. The film ends with a disclaimer noting that while it is "inspired by actual historical events," "certain characters, events and dialogue" were fictionalized.
As depicted in the film, Alfred C. Kinsey (23 June 1894-25 August 1956) first began his professional scientific career as a zoologist. At Indiana University (Bloomington), where he was a zoology professor, Kinsey met chemistry student and fellow nature enthusiast McMillen (Oct 1898-April 1982); the couple married in 1921. Known by colleagues as "Get a Million Kinsey" for his dedication to collecting gall wasp specimens, Kinsey, over twenty years of studying the insects, became one of the foremost entomologists and taxonomists in the country. Kinsey, nicknamed "Prok" by students at a summer camp at which he counseled, had four children with Mac. Their eldest child, Donald, died when he was four years old. [In a December 17, 2004 Entertainment Weekly article, writer-director Bill Condon stated that he did not include the death of Donald in the film in order to avoid making Kinsey appear "warmer and fuzzier."] Although the picture presents a semi-reconciliation between Kinsey and his father when Kinsey takes his father's sex history, in real life, Kinsey rarely saw his father after arguing with him over his decision to become a biologist instead of an engineer. After Kinsey, Sr. divorced his wife in order to marry another woman in 1930, Kinsey ceased all contact with him.
In 1938, when students began demanding more informative sex education, Kinsey taught the biology portion of the first "marriage course" at Indiana University and became interested in studying human sexual behavior. Although it was not shown in the film, civic and religious groups, as well as jealous colleagues, protested when Kinsey began taking the sexual histories of the marriage class students. In 1940, Indiana University president Herman Wells, despite his support of Kinsey, was forced to ask the scientist to choose between teaching the course or taking histories. Kinsey stopped teaching the class, although it was continued by other professors.
Kinsey developed a specialized interview technique to address an average of 300 questions about more than 200 different types of sexual behavior. Along with his three main assistants-Clyde Martin, Wardell Pomeroy and Paul Gebhard-Kinsey used an elaborate written code, the key to which was known only to themselves, to record the answers of the thousands of people whom they interviewed. Kinsey's goal was to obtain 100,000 histories over the course of twenty years, which he intended to use in nine books detailing different aspects of human sexuality.
Kinsey's first volume, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, was published in 1948 to enormous critical and popular acclaim. Kinsey's second book about sex, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, was published in 1953. Although it, too, initially received good reviews and was well-received by the public, a huge backlash, largely led by religious and conservative groups, enveloped Kinsey in a storm of controversy. As shown in the film, the Rockefeller Foundation, which had funded Kinsey for thirteen years through the National Research Council, withdrew its financial support, leaving Kinsey scrambling to keep afloat the Institute for Sex Research (ISR), which he had founded in 1947.
Among the financial drains on the ISR was the lawsuit it was involved with against the U.S. Customs Department. The suit began in 1950 when the Customs Dept., declaring that the material was "grossly obscene," seized a shipment of erotica that Kinsey had imported to add to the institute's massive collection of erotic literature, art, photographs and artifacts. The case, which dragged on until after Kinsey's death, was won by the institute in July 1957, when a federal district court judge ruled that explicit materials collected solely for scholarly research could not be considered pornographic.
Although Kinsey's free thinking and sexual practices, which included having numerous affairs with both women and men, such as Martin and Pomeroy, have spurred ongoing controversy, he is also widely commended for his nonjudgmental attitude toward his subjects, his progressive scientific and interviewing methods and his urging of tolerance toward homosexuality, which his statistics attempted to show was a normal part of human sexuality. By the time of his death, Kinsey had laid the groundwork for several more volumes and numerous studies. From 1938 to 1963, when the interview project ceased, the institute gathered more than 18,000 histories, a third of which had been taken personally by Kinsey. The ISR was renamed the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction in 1982 and continues to use Kinsey's huge reservoir of data.
The idea of making a film about Kinsey first appealed to producer Gail Mutrux in late 1995, according to a December 6, 1995 Hollywood Reporter news item. At that time, Mutrux intended to produce the project with partner Katie Jacobs and co-producer Amanda Nelligan at Fox 2000. Mutrux purchased a script about Kinsey from screenwriter David Ives in December 1995, although later news items reported that Ives's work was not used in the final film. According to a January 12, 2005 Los Angeles Times article, in 1996, Mutrux signed Tom Fontana, with whom she had worked on the television show Homicide: Life on the Street, to write a script for Kinsey. The article stated that Fontana dropped out of the project before "handing in a completed draft...because his TV responsibilities were too consuming."
In December 1999, Hollywood Reporter announced that Mutrux had signed Bill Condon to work on the project, which was to be based on Gathorne-Hardy's biography of Kinsey as well as Ward's documentary. The article stated that Fox 2000 vice-president Ashley Kramer was "overseeing the project for the studio" at that time. An October 2002 Daily Variety article noted that Condon "based his original screenplay on elements in the [Gathorne-Hardy] biography combined with his own original research on Kinsey," and that he had spent more than a year working on the script. It was also stated that Myriad Pictures official Lucas Foster would serve as an executive producer along with Kirk D'Amico. Although D'Amico is credited onscreen, Foster's contribution to the completed picture, if any, has not been determined.
In January 2003, the website for the Indiana University student paper, www.idsnews.com, reported that Condon first approached George Clooney to play Kinsey, and after Clooney turned down the part, actors Ralph Fiennes, Jeff Bridges and Michael Douglas were considered before Liam Neeson was cast. The October 2002 Daily Variety article reported that actor Ian McKellen, who had worked with Condon on the 1998 Academy Award-winning film Gods and Monsters, was "in negotiations to play a composite of real characters as the film's host." On his personal website, McKellen noted in June 2004 that although he had wanted to appear in the film, the supporting character he was to play, based on Kinsey colleague Clarence A. Tripp, was dropped before filming began. According to studio press notes, Tripp was one of "scores of people who had known and worked with Kinsey" whom Condon interviewed while researching the picture.
Several 2002 Daily Variety and Hollywood Reporter news items reported that the film, which encountered funding difficulties, initially was to be distributed domestically by United Artists, which had a distribution deal with executive producer Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope company, one of Kinsey's financial backers. A February 25, 2002 Hollywood Reporter article stated that the film's budget was to be capped at ten million dollars in accordance with Zoetrope's pact with UA. The deal for UA to distribute the picture eventually fell through, although Myriad Pictures, another financial backer, stayed on to distribute the picture internationally. Mutrux took the project to Fox Searchlight Pictures and the English company Qwerty Films to obtain domestic distribution and additional financing, according to a July 2003 Daily Variety report. The January 2005 Los Angeles Times article adds that Mutrux and her husband, producer Tony Ganz, invested their own money in the project, which "was rejected by 87 studios and film companies" before Mutrux finalized the complicated financing.
Many of the crew, such as editor Virginia Katz, music composer Carter Burwell, production designer Richard Sherman and costume designer Bruce Finlayson, had previously worked with Condon on Gods and Monsters. Actors Liam Neeson and Laura Linney had appeared together in a 2002 Broadway revival of the play The Crucible, and in several interviews, credited their previous close working relationship with their ease in filming Kinsey. According to studio press notes, as well as information on the Kinsey Institute website, Condon, Neeson and Sherman visited the Indiana University campus where they toured the institute's collections and conducted more interviews of people who had known Kinsey and his colleagues.
In studio press notes, Condon explained that he deliberately chose not to identify the film's time periods overtly with "title cards or superimposed dates" in order to "achieve an almost timeless quality in the later parts of the film-to convey the idea that in some ways things haven't changed at all." According to the presskit, the picture was shot on location in New York and New Jersey. Among the key locations in New York were Fordham University, Bronx Community College and Columbia University's historic Havemeyer lecture hall. New Jersey locations included a nineteenth-century house in Plainfield that served as the Kinsey family home and a building at Letchworth Village in Stony Point that was transformed into Kinsey's laboratory. Due to the film's tight budget, Burwell's music score was recorded with only eleven musicians, according to the presskit.
Much controversy engulfed the picture both during production and after its release. Numerous conservative and religious groups attempted to influence the filmmakers not to make the picture, according to trade and newspaper reports. New York public television station WNET refused to run an advertisement for the film upon its release, claiming that it could not "risk viewer complaints," according to a November 22, 2004 Daily Variety news item. Some groups, such as Focus on the Family and the Concerned Women for America's Culture and Family Institute, threatened to picket the film and also urged their members to boycott all Fox releases for one year.
Despite the contentiousness surrounding the film, Kinsey garnered excellent reviews, with Time calling it "a smart social satire masquerading as a biopic," and Hollywood Reporter terming it a "lively, beautifully written and acted portrait." Neeson and Linney were both highly praised for their acting. Los Angeles Times asserted that the role represented Neeson's "most fully realized performance," and the New York Times critic added that Linney played her role with "forthrightness, delicacy and a brisk sense of mischief." Actress Lynn Redgrave, who is Neeson's wife's aunt, also received excellent notices for her cameo as Kinsey's final interview subject. Laura Linney's father, playwright Romulus Linney, appears in the picture as "Rep. B. Carroll Reece." While also lauding the film's factual accuracy, a number of reviewers commented on its political and cultural timeliness, with the Village Voice calling it "one [of] the year's most politically relevant movies."
In addition to being named one of the top ten films of the year by AFI, Kinsey was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture-Drama and an Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature. Other Independent Spirit nominations included Best Screenplay, Best Male Lead (Neeson) and Best Supporting Male (Peter Sarsgaard) Neeson and Linney also received Golden Globe nominations for their acting, with Linney being named Best Supporting Actress of the year by the National Board of Review and receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and a nomination for Female Actor in a Supporting Role by the Screen Actors Guild. Neeson was also cited as Best Actor of the year by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Bill Condon received a Best Original Screenplay nomination from the Writers Guild. Time, Newsweek and New York Times were among the other organizations naming Kinsey one of the top ten films of 2004, and according to the January 12, 2005 Los Angeles Times article, over 110 groups placed the film on their top ten lists.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States on Video May 17, 2005
Released in United States September 2004
Released in United States October 2004
Released in United States February 2005
Shown at Chicago International Film Festival (Opening Night) October 7-21, 2004.
Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (Closing Night) February 10-20, 2005.
Shown at Berlin International Film Festival February 10-20, 2005.
Based on the documentary SEX AND THE SCIENTIST produced by Diane Ward and Indiana University, as well as the biography SEX AND THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS: A LIFE OF ALFRED KINSEY by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy.
Project formerly in development at Fox 2000.
International distribution rights held by Myriad Pictures. MGM/UA was previously set as the film's domestic distributor but the deal fell through, with Fox Searchlight picking up the project. Paradiso acquired rights in Benelux.
Exclusive NY/LA release on 11/12/2004.
Pretty Pictures is Gail Mutrux's production company.
Additional photography took place in New York in February 2004.
Released in United States Fall November 12, 2004
Released in United States on Video May 17, 2005
Released in United States September 2004 (Shown at Telluride Film Festival September 3-6, 2004.)
Released in United States October 2004 (Shown at Chicago International Film Festival (Opening Night) October 7-21, 2004.)
Winner of the 2004 award for Best Actor (Liam Neeson) by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA).
Winner of the 2004 award for Best Supporting Actress (Laura Linney) by the National Board of Review (NBR).
Released in United States Fall November 12, 2004
Released in United States February 2005 (Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (Closing Night) February 10-20, 2005.)
Released in United States February 2005 (Shown at Berlin International Film Festival February 10-20, 2005.)
Voted one of the 10 best films of 2004 by the American Film Institute (AFI).
