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# ‘Kinsey’ gets kinky
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/kinsey-gets-kinky/
- Published: 2004-11-12T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T05:31:13.000Z
- Author: Dan Dunn
- Tags: local, Santa Monica, #archive-import

From Bill Condon, the Academy Award-winning author who penned “Gods and Monsters” and “Chicago,” comes a biopic about the late Indiana University Professor Alfred Kinsey, whose exhaustively researched 1948 tome “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male” was an international sensation that sparked a sexual revolution.

Liam Neeson and Laura Linney deliver categorically meritorious performances as the good doc — or Prok, as Kinsey was nicknamed –— and his remarkable wife Clara. Kinsey’s research associates and fellow sexual adventurers are brought to life with great aplomb by the always-interesting Peter Sarsgaard, Chris O’Donnell playing refreshingly against type, and Timothy Hutton, who doesn’t seem to work nearly enough to satisfy discriminating moviegoers. This is a hot-button project sure to spark debate, but thankfully Condon never allows moralizing to get in the way of snappy storytelling. Kinsey’s history is nimbly recounted, and bristles with fun and, on occasion, arresting poignance. John Lithgow is superb in a limited role as Kinsey’s oppressive old man. (Rated R for pervasive sexual content, including some graphic images and descriptions. Running time: 118 minutes.)

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on November 12, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/111204.pdf?ref=smdp.com)