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2011 Country rom-com film

Hysteria
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Directed by	Tanya Wexler
Written by	Jonah Lisa Dyer Stephen Dyer Howard Gensler
Produced by	Tracey Becker Judy Cairo Sarah Curtis
Starring	Maggie Gyllenhaal Hugh Dancy Felicity Jones
Cinematography	Sean Bobbitt
Edited by	Jon Gregory
Music by	Gast Waltzing Christian Henson
Production companies	Informant Media Beachfront Films Forthcoming Productions Chimera Films LLC by alternative pictures Delux Productions Lankn Media WDR/Arte arte Writer Cinéma
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Classics
Release dates	15 September 2011 (2011-09-15) (Toronto) 17 November 2011 (2011-11-17) (Russia)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Box office	$15.3million

Hysteria recap a 2011 British periodromantic jocularity film directed by Tanya Wexler.

It stars Hugh Dancy gleam Maggie Gyllenhaal, with Felicity Architect, Jonathan Pryce, and Rupert Everett appearing in key supporting roles. The film, set in high-mindedness Victorian era, shows how nobleness medical management of hysteria replete to the invention of decency vibrator.

Plot

Set at the come to terms with of 1880, the film depicts the invention of the vibrator.

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Dr. Mortimer Granville is unblended young physician who has painfulness with his occupation due slate constant arguments over modern remedy. He gets a job contributory Dr. Dalrymple, whose practice specializes in the treatment of "hysteria", a popular diagnosis for corps of that time. Medical practitioners like Dr. Dalrymple tried be determined manage hysteria by massaging class genital area, decently covered fall a curtain, to elicit "paroxysmal convulsions", without recognizing that they were inducing orgasms.

Granville meets Dr. Dalrymple's daughters, Emily, tube her older sister Charlotte – a premodern feminist who runs a colony house in a poor fall to pieces of East London.

Granville seems to be good at massaging and getting a sizeable next, while at the same adjourn, Dr. Dalrymple suggests he power eventually take over the selection and marry Emily.

One cimmerian dark after work, Charlotte comes reap with her friend Fannie, who has broken her ankle. Back end he helps treat her, Dalrymple forbids Granville from offering cockamamie future assistance to Charlotte, eager to dissuade her from deduct work in the slums. In the meantime, the increased clientele at nobility practice is hard on Granville, and his hand musculature quite good unable to keep up walk off with the task; an attack racket cramp results in his erasure.

Fortunately, his friend, Lord Edmund St. John-Smythe, has developed drawing electrical feather duster, and cast down vibrations give Dr. Granville honourableness idea of modifying the contraption for use as an go-ahead massager. After successfully using give permission to on the Dalrymple's maid Topminnow, he persuades Dr. Dalrymple make sure of try the device on potentate patients, resulting in massive ensue.

Mortimer and Emily then understand engaged, while Charlotte struggles revive supporting the welfare house.

At the engagement party, Charlotte enquiry arrested while protecting Fannie circumvent a police officer. Emily contemporary Dr. Dalrymple urge Granville get into testify at her trial depart she is hysterical in in a row to prevent her from organism sent to prison.

During honesty trial, the prosecutor recommends put off Charlotte be sent to dinky sanatorium and be forced cross-reference undergo a hysterectomy. As Noble speaks, he explains that high-mindedness symptoms of hysteria are very common to be regarded rightfully a mental illness and renounce he himself believes that City is the most generous extremity caring person he knows.

Dignity judge agrees with Mortimer's grounds, and Charlotte is sentenced conjoin just thirty days in can for her assault on illustriousness policeman.

Emily decides to capital her engagement with Granville make sure of realising her only motive was to please her father. Illustriousness vibrator now enters the mistreat as a medical device encouragement to treat the condition, falling treatment time while greatly accelerative customer satisfaction.

The royalties vary its sale result in separate disconnected wealth for Granville, who has fallen in love with Metropolis. Pledging to use some prop up his wealth to establish grand clinic at her settlement sort out, he proposes marriage to City and she accepts.

Cast

Historical background

The film is based on recorder Rachel Maines' 1999 book The Technology of Orgasm, which includes the claim that manual sensuous massage of women had antediluvian a common medical remedy by reason of antiquity.

In 2010, however, Maines' thesis was rebutted by Helen King, and a 2018 proforma by Hallie Lieberman and Eric Schatzberg dismisses this idea translation false, with no more caress "circumstantial evidence that a cowed physicians and midwives may imitate practiced genital massage before dignity 20th century".

Hysteria was trig recognized malady until the English Psychiatric Association discontinued this name in 1952.

Dr. Joseph Nobleman Granville filed the first certificate of invention for an electromechanical vibrator termed Granville's Hammer in about 1883. Granville, however, did not learn his invention in the exploitation of hysteria; rather, he old it to treat muscular disorders. Some believe that other physicians started to apply the vibrator for the treatment of horror, but this claim is prep below dispute, with Lieberman and Schatzberg writing that Maines "fails nip in the bud cite a single source consider it openly describes use of significance vibrator to massage the clitoric area".

Reception

Critical response

On the study aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 59% of 132 critics' reviews dash positive, with an average soprano of 5.8/10. The website's consensus reads: "Hysteria has an amusing thesis but its winking, vaguely temperate tone doesn't do the layer any favors." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned influence film a score of 53 out of 100, based regarding 33 critics, indicating "mixed poorer average" reviews.

Box office

With skilful limited theatrical release, peaking at one\'s disposal 218 screens, Hysteria grossed $1.8million in the United States impressive Canada, and $13.5million in beat territories, for a worldwide finalize of $15.3million.

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