Synopsis
Hysteria (2011) In 1880 pioneering doctor Mortimer Granville,sacked from various hospitals for challenging his superiors' out-moded methods,gets a job with Dr Dalrymple,who relieves female patients' frustrations - or hysteria - with pelvic massages which allow orgasm. The handsome young doctor attracts a large female clientele and gets engaged to Dalrymple's studious younger daughter Emily but after the constant massaging brings on a carpal injury he is sacked. Fortunately an enterprising inventor friend has come up with a power operated feather duster which will soon be transformed into a vibrator and make Mortimer a fortune. Along the way he also realises that his heart really lies with Emily's older sister Charlotte,an outspoken suffragette who runs a home for disadvantaged women in London's East End. ??don @ minifie-1

Awards: 2 nominations
Soundtrack: Rule Britannia (Written by Thomas Augustine Arne)


Tanya Wexler
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryce
2011-12-14 (United Kingdom, France, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg)
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