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Hysteria is a 2011 British period romantic comedy film directed by Tanya Wexler. It stars Hugh Dancy and Maggie Gyllenhaal, with Felicity Jones, Jonathan Pryce, and Rupert Everett appearing in key supporting roles. The film, set in the Victorian era, shows how the medical management of hysteria led to the invention of the vibrator.
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Dec 14, 2011 · Hysteria: Directed by Tanya Wexler. With Hugh Dancy, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jonathan Pryce, Felicity Jones. The truth of how Mortimer Granville devised the invention of the first vibrator in the name of medical science.
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- Biography, Comedy, Romance
- Tanya Wexler
- 2011-12-14
May 23, 2012 · Tanya Wexler's quietly saucy "Hysteria" takes place in London at a time when medical authorities didn't know the word for or the concept of "orgasm," and apparently many women never experienced them.
In 1880 pioneering doctor Mortimer Granville, sacked from various hospitals for challenging his superiors' outmoded methods, gets a job with Dr Dalrymple, who relieves female patients' frustrations - or hysteria - with pelvic massages which allow orgasm.
In an age of invention, one man set out to find a medical cure for what ails women... and accidentally electrified our love lives forever. HYSTERIA is a lighthearted romantic comedy that tells the surprising story of the birth of the electro-mechanical vibrator at the very peak of Victorian prudishness.
May 18, 2012 · Overview. Two doctors in Victorian England use manual stimulation of female genitalia to cure their patients' ills, leading to the invention of the vibrator. Jonah Lisa Dyer.
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