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The film received mixed reviews, garnering a score of 53 out of 100 (based on 33 reviews) at [[Metacritic]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/hysteria |title=Hysteria Reviews | publisher=[[Metacritic]] | accessdate={{nowrap|January 14}}, 2013 }}</ref>. [[Rotten Tomatoes]] reported a score of 57% based on 117 reviews and a consensus of "Hysteria has an amusing subject but its winking, vaguely sarcastic tone doesn't do the movie any favors." |
The film received mixed reviews, garnering a score of 53 out of 100 (based on 33 reviews) at [[Metacritic]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/hysteria |title=Hysteria Reviews | publisher=[[Metacritic]] | accessdate={{nowrap|January 14}}, 2013 }}</ref>. [[Rotten Tomatoes]] reported a score of 57% based on 117 reviews and a consensus of "Hysteria has an amusing subject but its winking, vaguely sarcastic tone doesn't do the movie any favors."<ref name="rt">{{cite web | url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hysteria_2012/ |title=Hysteria |publisher=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] | accessdate={{nowrap|January 14}}, 2013 }}</ref> |
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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 France Cinéma |
| Distributed by | BIM Distribuzione |
Release date |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $7,954,139[1] |
Hysteria is a 2011 British romantic comedy film directed by Tanya Wexler. It stars Felicity Jones, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Rupert Everett and Hugh Dancy.[2] The film, set in the Victorian era, shows how the medical management of hysteria led to the invention of the vibrator.[2] The film's title refers to the once-common medical diagnosis of female hysteria.
Plot
Set at the end of the 19th century, the film depicts the management of “hysteria,” a then popular diagnosis of women displaying an array of symptoms including nervousness, insomnia, exhaustion, depression, cramps, and sexual frustration. Medical practitioners of the day tried to manage hysteria by massaging the genital area, decently covered under a curtain, to elicit "paroxysmal convulsions", without recognizing that they were inducing orgasms. In the movie, the young physician Dr. Mortimer Granville gets a job helping Dr. Dalrymple, who runs a successful practice treating women. Granville seems to be good at massaging, getting a sizeable following, while at the same time developing a liking for the Dalrymple's proper Victorian daughter, Emily Dalrymple. As the practice prospers, Dr. Dalrymple proposes marriage between Emily and Granville; in the meantime, Granville finds himself assisting Dalrymple's other daughter, Charlotte, a premodern feminist firebrand who runs a settlement house in a poor section of London. Dalrymple forbids Granville from offering any future assistance to Charlotte, hoping to dissuade her from her work in the slums. Meanwhile, the increased clientele at the practice is hard on Granville, and his hand musculature is unable to keep up with the task, leading to dissatisfaction among the patients and his dismissal by Dalrymple. Fortunately, his friend Lord Edmund St. John-Smythe has developed an electrical feather duster, and its vibrations give Dr. Granville the idea to modify the gadget for use as an electric massager. As such, the vibrator enters the stage as a medical device for the treatment of the condition, reducing treatment time while greatly increasing customer satisfaction. The royalties from its sale result in independent wealth for Granville, who has since fallen in love with Charlotte. Pledging to use some of his wealth to establish a clinic at her settlement house, he proposes marriage to Charlotte and she accepts.
Historical background
Manual genital massage of women had been a medical remedy since antiquity,[3] and hysteria was a recognized malady until the American Psychiatric Association discontinued this term in 1952.[3] Joseph Mortimer Granville filed the first patent for an electromechanical vibrator termed Granville's Hammer in about 1883.[4] Granville, however, did not apply his invention in the treatment of hysteria; rather, he used it to treat muscular disorders. Other physicians started to apply the vibrator for the treatment of hysteria.[4]
Cast
- Hugh Dancy as Dr. Mortimer Granville
- Maggie Gyllenhaal as Charlotte Dalrymple
- Jonathan Pryce as Dr. Robert Dalrymple
- Felicity Jones as Emily Dalrymple
- Rupert Everett as Lord Edmund St. John-Smythe
- Ashley Jensen as Fanny
- Sheridan Smith as Molly the Lolly
- Gemma Jones as Lady St. John-Smythe
- Malcolm Rennie as Lord St. John-Smythe
- Kim Criswell as Mrs. Castellari
- Georgie Glen as Mrs. Parsons
- Elisabet Johannesdottir as Mrs. Pearce
- Linda Woodhall as Nurse Smalley
- Kim Selby as Lady Wheaton
- Ann Overstall Comfort as Mrs. Huddleston
- Jonathan Rhodes as PC Fugate
- Leila Anaïs Schaus as Tess
Reception
The film received mixed reviews, garnering a score of 53 out of 100 (based on 33 reviews) at Metacritic[5]. Rotten Tomatoes reported a score of 57% based on 117 reviews and a consensus of "Hysteria has an amusing subject but its winking, vaguely sarcastic tone doesn't do the movie any favors."[6]
References
- ^ "Hysteria". Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
- ^ a b http://blog.moviefone.com/2011/08/17/hysteria-trailer-maggie-gyllenhaal-vibrators/
- ^ a b Rachel P. Maines. "The Technology of Orgasm. The Job Nobody Wanted". The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-5941-7.
- ^ a b NNBD. "Joseph Mortimer Granville".
- ^ "Hysteria Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved January 14, 2013.
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