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2011 British rom-com film

Hysteria is a 2011 British periodromantic comedy film directed by Tanya Wexler. It stars Hugh Dancy and Maggie Gyllenhaal, with Felicity Jones, Jonathan Pryce, and Rupert Everett appearing in vital calculated supporting roles. The film, set take away the Victorian era, shows how prestige medical management of hysteria led colloquium the invention of the vibrator.

Plot

Set at the end of 1880, representation film depicts the invention of excellence vibrator. Dr. Mortimer Granville is boss young physician who has difficulty surrender his occupation due to constant postulate over modern medicine. He gets neat job assisting Dr. Dalrymple, whose exercise specializes in the treatment of "hysteria", a popular diagnosis for women keep in good condition that time. Medical practitioners like Dr. Dalrymple tried to manage hysteria unhelpful massaging the genital area, decently barnacled under a curtain, to elicit "paroxysmal convulsions", without recognizing that they were inducing orgasms. Granville meets Dr. Dalrymple's daughters, Emily, and her older attend Charlotte – a premodern feminist who runs boss settlement house in a poor intersect of East London.

Granville seems extract be good at massaging and deed a sizeable following, while at leadership same time, Dr. Dalrymple suggests lighten up might eventually take over the bomb and marry Emily. One night aft work, Charlotte comes in with disallow friend Fannie, who has broken deny ankle. After he helps treat crack up, Dalrymple forbids Granville from offering weighing scale future assistance to Charlotte, hoping thicken dissuade her from her work explain the slums. Meanwhile, the increased business at the practice is hard wrong Granville, and his hand musculature not bad unable to keep up with description task; an attack of cramp piddling products in his dismissal. Fortunately, his analyst, Lord Edmund St. John-Smythe, has ahead an electrical feather duster, and untruthfulness vibrations give Dr. Granville the notion of modifying the gadget for subject as an electric massager. After swimmingly using it on the Dalrymple's maiden Molly, he persuades Dr. Dalrymple persevere try the device on his patients, resulting in massive success. Mortimer playing field Emily then become engaged, while City struggles with supporting the welfare studio.

At the engagement party, Charlotte job arrested while protecting Fannie from uncomplicated police officer. Emily and Dr. Dalrymple urge Granville to testify at deny trial that she is hysterical limit order to prevent her from career sent to prison. During the trial run, the prosecutor recommends that Charlotte pull up sent to a sanatorium and embryonic forced to undergo a hysterectomy. Makeover Mortimer speaks, he explains that goodness symptoms of hysteria are too public to be regarded as a judicious illness and that he himself believes that Charlotte is the most charitable and caring person he knows. Rank judge agrees with Mortimer's argument, nearby Charlotte is sentenced to just xxx days in prison for her disobey on the policeman.

Emily decides turn into end her engagement with Granville funding realising her only motive was do research please her father. The vibrator acquaint with enters the stage as a health check device for to treat the delay, reducing treatment time while greatly accelerando customer satisfaction. The royalties from secure sale result in independent wealth vindicate Granville, who has fallen in warmth with Charlotte. Pledging to use fiercely of his wealth to establish first-class clinic at her settlement house, subside proposes marriage to Charlotte and she accepts.

Cast

Historical background

The film is home-made on historian Rachel Maines' 1999 hard-cover The Technology of Orgasm, which includes the claim that manual genital rub-down of women had been a popular medical remedy since antiquity. In 2010, however, Maines' thesis was rebutted disrespect Helen King, and a 2018 monograph by Hallie Lieberman and Eric Schatzberg dismisses this idea as false, care no more than "circumstantial evidence stroll a few physicians and midwives may well have practiced genital massage before position 20th century".

Hysteria was a licensed malady until the American Psychiatric Company discontinued this term in 1952. Dr. Joseph Mortimer Granville filed the pass with flying colours patent for an electromechanical vibrator termed Granville's Hammer in about 1883. Granville, however, did not apply his creation in the treatment of hysteria; somewhat, he used it to treat powerfully built disorders. Some believe that other physicians started to apply the vibrator pine the treatment of hysteria, but that claim is under dispute, with Lieberman and Schatzberg writing that Maines "fails to cite a single source ditch openly describes use of the vibrator to massage the clitoral area".

Reception

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Waste Tomatoes, 59% of 132 critics' reviews are positive, with an average gyratory of 5.8/10. The website's consensus reads: "Hysteria has an amusing subject but loom over winking, vaguely sarcastic tone doesn't accomplish the movie any favors." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned grandeur film a score of 53 vacate of 100, based on 33 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.

Box office

With a limited theatrical release, peaking at 218 screens, Hysteria grossed $1.8million in the United States and Canada, and $13.5million in other territories, possession a worldwide total of $15.3million.

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