Hysteria
A comedy about the birth of the vibrator in Victorian England.
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: eOne Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Hugh Dancy, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Felicity Jones, Rupert Everett, Jonathan Pryce & Ashley Jensen | |
| Performer: | Sheridan Smith & Gemma Jones | |
| Directed by | Tanya Wexler | |
| Edited by | Jon Gregory | |
| Music by | Christian Henson | |
| Screenwriting by | Jonah Lisa Dyer & Stephen Dyer | |
| Composition by | Gast Waltzing | |
| Story by | Jonah Lisa Dyer & Stephen Dyer | |
| Director of Photography: | Sean Bobbitt |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 3/5 --
It's all rather sweet in its way, as it treads gingerly round and round its subject. Nicely acted too, especially by Gyllenhaal and Pryce.
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London Evening Standard
Rating: 3/5 --
Hysteria is a history lesson customised as a costume comedy.
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Financial Times
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Hysteria might be the most unlikely romantic comedy of the year -- if not the decade.
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Washington Examiner
One of the pleasures of Wexler's third feature is how elegantly it sets its story in the period. The costumes, the sets, the locations and the behavior are all flawless...
Chicago Sun-Times
[With] subtle idiosyncratic comedic moments...
Film Comment
Rating: 1/5 --
Tanya Wexler's staggeringly bad period comedy wears out its AA batteries fast, despite its teasing premise.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Although it stumbles late towards its conclusion at a courthouse, "Hysteria" never drags or gets hung up on its easily exploited premise, opting to go for warm, gutteral guffaws rather than straight to the gutter.
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Product Description:
Set in Victorian London, Tanya Wexler's period comedy HYSTERIA tells the tale of Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy), a young doctor disturbed by the way most hospitals ignore the latest research on germ theory, and still treat patients with bleedings and leeches. After being fired from his most recent job for speaking out on the matter, he ends up in the employ of Dr. Robert Dalrymple (Jonathan Pryce) who runs a private practice specializing in treating women who suffer from "hysteria" and come to the doctor for his precise digital manipulations in order to get a release. With the help of Mortimer's best friend Edmund (Rupert Everett) together they create a device that allows these women to achieve the desired result much more quickly. Complicating matters, Mortimer becomes enamored of Dalrymple's strong-willed, feminist-minded daughter Charlotte (Maggie Gyllenhaal). HYSTERIA played at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.
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