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  Journal of Religion & Film: Constantine by Jeffrey Mallinson
Kinsey is widely credited as a chief architect of the sexual revolution, and this movie explores Kinsey’s wide-ranging interests in any number of alternative sexual behaviors.
What pushes the movie from merely good to great is the way the conflict between religion and science takes shape so early, bringing a kind of logic to each scene, and in the end finding a subtle if slightly unsatisfying resolution in the film’s final moments.
Finally, Kinsey collapses during a lecture and it is revealed during the hospitalization that he is addicted to barbiturates.
www.unomaha.edu /jrf/Vol9No1/Reviews/Kinsey.htm   (904 words)

  
 Kinsey Movie Planned?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
According to the AP account, the Kinsey Institute’s limited open-door policy (the organization’s collections, particularly Kinsey’s research data and correspondence, are "strictly controlled") is a public relations venture intended to combat recent public criticism of Kinsey and his methods.
Judith Reisman, author of Kinsey, Sex and Fraud and Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences, observes that Kinsey made "deliberate, repeated use of aberrant samples of males and females for his study, and then [claimed] that the sexual practices of these groups were representative of the activity of normal men and women.
Kinsey’s most repellent "research" method was the use of criminal pedophiles to sexually abuse children — including infants — in order to maintain that humans are "sexual" beings from birth.
www.rsvpamerica.org /Kinseymovie.htm   (570 words)

  
 LIAM NEESON SLATED FOR AGREEING TO DEVIANT 'KINSEY'S REPORT' FLICK @moviebus news
Kinsey concluded, for example, that 69 percent of white males had had at least one experience with a prostitute.
Kinsey biographer James H. Jones, former adviser to the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, has admitted that Kinsey, the father of three children, was not the conventional academic and family man the university presented, but was sexually compromised.
For the Kinsey Institute, according to Reisman, the film likely will be seen as a boon to the institute's attempts to bolster Kinsey's reputation in the face of mounting criticism of his character and work.
www.moviebus.com /01_news_02_12_09_neesonkinseyreport.shtml   (1668 words)

  
 Kinsey movie review
Movie follows the life of Alfred Kinsey from his extremely troubled childhood to his controversial adulthood.
Kinsey realizes that there are many other students and couples who know little about sex and have nowhere to turn for advice.
As Kinsey entered the limelight, he had a sexual affair with his colleague Clyde Martin (Peter Sarsgaard), and swinging relations with some of his researchers.
www.webindia123.com /movie/international/reviews/kinsey   (553 words)

  
 The Kinsey Institute -Movie facts
Dr. Kinsey died in 1956 at the age of 62.
But a second wave of comments were negative, and Kinsey was attacked by religious and conservative groups, and in some cases by the academic community, which questioned his data collection and analysis.
Kinsey is widely respected today for interview methodology, documenting the wide variation in sexual behavior, studying the differences in male and female sexual response and perceptions, and launching the scientific study of sex.
www.kinseyinstitute.org /about/Movie-facts.html   (1214 words)

  
 Kinsey (2004) Starring: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell - Three Movie Buffs Review
Kinsey himself is interviewed by several of his associates throughout the film, and he reveals his life story to them in flashbacks.
It was as a consequence of his own uncertainties in the marriage bed and the various questions his students would ask in private at the university where he was a professor who specialized in the study of the gall wasp, that he first conceived of the idea of teaching a human sexuality class.
Kinsey certainly helped gay people to be accepted by our society at a time when physical love between members of the same sex was outlawed in many places.
www.threemoviebuffs.com /review.php?movieID=kinsey   (1218 words)

  
 Kinsey (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kinsey continues to answer students' questions in personal meetings but finds his answers to be severely limited by the complete paucity of scientific data about human sexual intercourse.
Kinsey's honesty in his relationships with people outside of his wife causes some strain in their marriage, but all parties involved consent and the Kinseys remain committed to each other throughout their lives.
Alfred Kinsey himself suffers a heart attack, something foreshadowed in his mention of having a "weak heart" at the beginning of the movie and is found to have developed an addiction to barbiturates.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kinsey_(movie)   (889 words)

  
 SBC Baptist Press - FIRST-PERSON: What you won’t see in the ‘Kinsey’ movie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The movie, “Kinsey,” opened in theaters Nov. 12, introducing a new generation of Americans to the infamous "father" of sex research in America.
Kinsey wanted to prove that children are sexual beings who should be understood to have and to deserve sexual experiences.
Kinsey, or "Mac" as she was known, is remembered to have brought refreshments to the participants at the conclusion of their sex acts and video sessions.
www.bpnews.net /bpcolumn.asp?ID=1617   (1956 words)

  
 Family.org — Focus Over Fifty — Kinsey: The Man (and the Agenda) Behind the Movie - Part I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Kinsey biographer James H. Jones wrote that Kinsey was plagued by “inner demons.” Even as a child, Kinsey’s masturbation compulsion spiraled down into masochism: He found sexual satisfaction in pain.
Kinsey’s “science” was based on thousands of surveys, more than most researchers of his time bothered to gather.
A chart in Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Male reveals that children as young as five months were masturbated by pedophiles in order to measure the time it took them to reach “orgasm.” Without benefit of any previous science, Kinsey believed children were sexual from birth.
www.family.org /focusoverfifty/articles/a0034116.cfm   (1230 words)

  
 Kinsey - Movie Review - The Chief Report
Kinsey grew up to rebel against his father, and went on to study, and teach about, a certain type of bug.
In real life, and in the movie, Kinsey interviews a man who had sex with hundreds of underage boys and girls, and Kinsey, instead of being disgusted and/or reporting the man, listens to him like he did with everyone else, and uses it in his research.
Kinsey has an affair with one of his assistants, then promotes the idea to his wife, who has an affair with the same assistant (played by a wonderful Peter Sarsgaard.) Everything Kinsey does is about the research; it's all about information.
www.wolfpackproductions.com /archive/kinsey.html   (1016 words)

  
 Christopher Smith : Week in Rewind.com Kinsey Movie Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
When Kinsey began his research in the late '30s, the United States was steeped in the sort of sexual repression that found some college-age adults believing that babies popped out of belly buttons, and others believing that oral sex could get one pregnant.
Kinsey's approach to studying human sexuality has long been controversial, even among his most liberal of supporters - he believed sexuality could be measured solely by scientific means, thus negating emotions.
She is the movie's balance, the one element that keeps "Kinsey" grounded even as Kinsey himself teeters over the edge.
www.weekinrewind.com /Reviews/i-l/Kinsey.htm   (394 words)

  
 CWA - The Truth about Alfred Kinsey (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-5.cs.princeton.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Kinsey's work has been instrumental in advancing acceptance of pornography, homosexuality, abortion, and condom-based sex education, and his disciples even today are promoting a view of children as "sexual beings." Their ultimate goal: to normalize pedophilia, or "adult-child sex."
Kinsey's studies have had an enormous impact on the law and the culture, despite later evidence that the research was fatally flawed and even involved cover-ups of child rape.
Kinsey was a silent partner in the molestation of hundreds of children.
www.cwfa.org.cob-web.org:8888 /kinsey.asp   (765 words)

  
 Kinsey (2004) Movie Review by Mark Dujsik at The Movie Insider
Kinsey, Bill Condon's biopic of the zoologist who turned American perception on what people do in their private sexual lives upside-down, portrays a man whose motives are mixed.
Kinsey has the benefit of Liam Neeson's highly nuanced performance as Kinsey, which helps to fill in many of the blanks and develop what we're presented in detail with a level of complexity.
The appointment is so successful that Kinsey comes to realize that sex is a field that has been all but ignored, and his reputation of having even basic knowledge of the subject at the university causes him to be quite popular.
www.themovieinsider.com /mr562-kinsey-movie-review.html   (868 words)

  
 Kinsey (2004)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
When MGM produced its movie version, Kiss Me Kate (1953), the same year as the publication of Kinsey's "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female", the film's censors changed the lyrics to "According to the weather report...," a sign of how much more controversial Kinsey's work was after the second book than the first.
The Kinsey Institute's FAQ on their Web site point out the active partnership of female research assistants for this work, who simply don't exist in the film.
Similarly, as Kinsey is shown taking the leap from taxonomy to adviser as an avatar of the coming sexual revolution, the psychological component of relationships, let alone sex, only comes up once such that Liam Neeson's characterization ultimately seems naive.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0362269   (865 words)

  
 The Kinsey Institute -Movie facts (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-5.cs.princeton.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Dr. Kinsey was interested in mammalian sexual behavior, and collected films of mating behavior of many animals.
Clara Kinsey died in 1982; she was 83 years old.
The Kinsey Institute continues to be an active research Institute of Indiana University.
www.kinseyinstitute.org.cob-web.org:8888 /about/Movie-facts.html   (1222 words)

  
 OFFOFFOFF film review KINSEY movie by Bill Condon with Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This gave Kinsey the singular advantage of being able to approach his two-legged subjects with a detachment that eliminated any kind of prurient interest on his part.
As with anyone who has dedicated their life to the collecting and cataloguing of things, be it bugs or sexual positions, Kinsey exhibited an obsessive-compulsive type personality that made social discourse exhausting (his dinner time patter, for example, was particularly difficult to digest).
There's a lot of explicit talk in "Kinsey" the film — references to masturbation, fornication, stimulation, copulation, menstruation, penetration — but the sad fact about Kinsey the man is that by failing to recognize love, an overreaching human emotion clearly absent from his research, he considered it to be the dirtiest word of all.
www.offoffoff.com /film/2004/kinsey.php   (702 words)

  
 Kinsey - DVD Movie Central
Condon's approach to Professor Kinsey is very much like Kinsey's approach to his own work...he passes no judgments and offers little in the way of either real praise or condemnation.
Kinsey was a man so driven by science that he seemed unaware that he was taking great risks with his life and career, and those of his closest associates.
His thoughts are generous and his recollections warm, as he discusses the various drafts of the scripts, casting Laura Linney first who became a great cheerleader for the project, Liam Neeson and his outside-in approach to acting, and all of the talented cast and crew who helped him realize his vision.
www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/kinsey.htm   (1100 words)

  
 Review of Kinsey: Let's Talk About Sex by America's Best Christian: Betty Bowers Christian Movie Reviews
Kinsey (Laura Linney) shamelessly demonstrates to her doctor the length of her husband's member, proving that the only thing more odious than a harlot is a braggart
Kinsey's statistical population was flawed because, sadly, he didn't spend time with nearly enough pedophiles.
Kinsey's penchant for discussing what forbidden fruits are up to in their urban lofts, our gated communities' cherished taciturnity is imperiled as loves that previously dared not speak their names are suddenly more garrulous than Paris Hilton after an ashtray of crystal meth.
www.bettybowers.com /kinsey.html   (1334 words)

  
 AlterNet: Movie Mix: The Joy of Sexology
Kinsey was a part of the generation that Arthur Schlesinger, writing in the Partisan Review in 1949, dubbed the age of the "Statistical Soldier," when Americans' appetite for approaching social questions by accumulating massive case histories reached its zenith.
Kinsey had documented that a plurality of younger American men were guilty of at least one act then illegal in some or all states, including premarital sex, homosexual sex, extramarital sex, oral sex with a spouse, anal sex with a fianc�e, among others.
Kinsey recorded that 6 percent of women and 21 percent of men had sex by age 16; in 1995, a study by the Alan Guttmacher Institute found that 39 percent of men and 45 percent weren't virgins at 16.
www.alternet.org /movies/20692   (3417 words)

  
 Frank's Reel Movie Reviews - Movie Review - Kinsey
Alfred Kinsey was a very controversial scientist in the mid 20th century.
Just as Kinsey always remained objective towards his interviewees so that he would garner a true and honest assessment, Condon presents to us the complex Kinsey, warts and all.
Condon's Kinsey is an extremely complex and intricate man. He was a husband, a pioneer, a protagonist, a thinker, a teacher, and even a radical.
www.franksreelreviews.com /reviews/2004/kinsey.htm   (771 words)

  
 Kinsey (Cosmique Movie Awards)
Professor Alfred Kinsey, a biology professor, embarks on a study of human sexuality and ends up as the subject's most famous expert.
A biopic of Alfred Kinsey (most famous for publishing the 1-in-10 statistic of homosexuality through his behavioral interviews) seems to be an unusual subject for a film.
But it is John Lithgow's performance as Kinsey's conservative father that, as usual, is the real powerhouse.
www.cosmomovieawards.com /2004awards/f5285.htm   (296 words)

  
 Lee's Movie Info - Kinsey Review
Part of the film is told through interviews with Kinsey and sessions of which he is preparing other fellows to conduct interviews concerning sex (which are filmed in fl and white), and the other part (filmed in color) involves Kinsey’s own past that led him to this point.
Kinsey is like A Beautiful Mind in terms of the spot-on performance, but the concept here is more provocative.
Kinsey is a decent candidate for a Best Picture nomination considering its ensemble cast, the performances by them, and the talent behind the scenes (Bill Condon, who wrote and directed, penned the screenplay for Chicago and also wrote and directed Gods and Monsters).
www.leesmovieinfo.net /Article.php?a=583   (976 words)

  
 Kinsey movie,trailer,review,pics,pictures,poster,news,DVD at The Z Review
Spanning six decades from his childhood in the early 1900s to his death in 1956, the film turns the microscope on the man whose landmark studies on the sexual behaviors of the common man rocked a nation.
No doubt when Kinsey comes out all the usual sex gags will be ran out, but they really should have nothing to do with Director Bill Condon's biopic of the life of Alfred Kinsey who pioneered research into human sexuality in a non voyeuristic scientific manner.
Fox Searchlight release the Liam Neeson starring movie is the US on 12th November and is released in the UK on 25th March 2005.
www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/k/kinsey.htm   (545 words)

  
 Kinsey - Movie Review
In "Kinsey," he legitimizes and revitalizes a rather tiresome narrative gimmick -- on-camera interviews with the characters.
Kinsey himself interviewed thousands of Americans about their bedroom predilections in the 1940s and '50s to compile his groundbreaking, rather comprehensive and certainly controversial studies on the subject.
Nor does he pull punches on Kinsey's own sex life -- Neeson has fervent scenes with both Linney and Sarsgaard (who also have a sex scene between them) -- and the picture is the better for it.
www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/kinsey_1   (552 words)

  
 Conservative Christians Protest Movie on Kinsey (washingtonpost.com)
Conservative Christian groups across the country are protesting a film about the life of sex researcher Alfred C. Kinsey, calling it a Hollywood whitewash of the man they hold largely responsible for the sexual revolution and a panoply of related ills, from high divorce rates to AIDS and child abuse.
Kinsey was a "massive criminal" who cooked his statistical data and based many of his purported findings on interviews with convicted sex offenders, Reisman said in an interview.
Jennifer Bass, a spokeswoman for the institute that Kinsey founded at Indiana University, said it is true that he interviewed prisoners and prostitutes.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A2472-2004Nov21.html   (949 words)

  
 Kinsey
Emerges not only as a movie about another time but as a movie of our time, a reminder that progress can be made only when someone's willing to step up to the plate.
Kinsey is one of the best movies of the year.
Although the strength of Kinsey is the subject matter, it would be criminal not to note the fine performances of Liam Neeson and Laura Linney, who imbue their characters with humanity and likeability.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/kinsey   (1143 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Kinsey movie rakes in cash   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In its second weekend in release, the movie many critics are calling a puff piece on the man some consider a fraud and a pervert grossed an average of $15,805 per screen on 36 screens nationwide.
Critics are focused primarily on Kinsey's promotion of early childhood sexual activity, based on his solicitation of data from known pedophiles who conducted "experiments" on children.
Reisman believes the film is part of a media blitz backed by the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Kinsey Institute and others that seeks to rehabilitate Kinsey as some of the explosive revelations about him gradually surface in the mainstream media.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41586   (668 words)

  
 Kinsey
The movie, which is scheduled to appear in theaters in 2004, is a controversial drama in which Neeson plays Alfred Kinsey, a professor who studies insects.
In the scene taped Monday, Neeson, as Kinsey, takes his girlfriend, played by Linney, to a cave to ask her to marry him.
According to the movieÕs local scene filmed was to take place in 1927 by the mouth of a cave.
homepage.mac.com /mukaya/kinsey.html   (750 words)

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