This serious and engrossing biopic was about controversial, Midwestern human sexuality researcher Dr. Alfred Kinsey (Liam Neeson) who laid the groundwork for the coming sexual revolution, with its tagline: “Let’s talk about sex”. It stirred up continuing protest about the impact of his pioneering work, interviews and liberal publications on morality and behavior. Kinsey startled the world with the publication of his Kinsey Report (aka Sexual Behavior in the Human Male) in 1948 and its follow-up Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953). It illustrated how Kinsey’s own wife Clara McMillen (Oscar-nominated Laura Linney) had painful sexual problems with her inexperienced husband during their honeymoon, and then later was engaged in an extra-marital affair with her husband’s bi-sexual assistant Clyde Martin (Peter Sarsgaard) – who also had a homosexual encounter with Kinsey and appeared in a full-frontal scene; and that a young Kinsey was punished with a confining genital strap to prevent him from masturbating by his minister father (John Lithgow).

Tagged: Bill Condon, Chris O'Donnell, Dr. Alfred Kinsey, Dylan Baker, Heather Goldenhersh, John Lithgow, John McMartin, Julianne Nicholson, Kathleen Chalfant, Kinsey, Laura Linney, Liam Neeson, Oliver Platt, Peter Sarsgaard, Tim Curry, Timothy Hutton, Veronica Cartwright, William Sadler