Hysteria (2011)

R ★ 6.7/10 100 min Comedy, Romance United Kingdom, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Switzerland English

Director: Tanya Wexler

Screenplay by: Stephen Dyer, Jonah Lisa Dyer
Story by: Jonah Lisa Dyer, Howard Gensler, Stephen Dyer

Streaming: Not available

A comedy about the birth of the vibrator in Victorian England.

Description

Two doctors in Victorian England use manual stimulation of female genitalia to cure their patients' ills, leading to the invention of the vibrator.

Maggie Gyllenhaal Charlotte Dalrymple

Hugh Dancy Dr. Mortimer Granville

Jonathan Pryce Dr. Robert Dalrymple

Felicity Jones Emily Dalrymple

Rupert Everett Lord Edmund St. John-Smythe

Ashley Jensen Fanny

Sheridan Smith Molly the Lolly

Gemma Jones Lady St. John-Smythe