This is the story of how one of the first electrical appliances in history to earn a patent sent sparks flying between a cautious man and a liberated woman, brought together by the wonders of friction.
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Set in Victorian London Tanya Wexler&39;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 &39;hysteria&39; and come to the doctor for his precise digital manipulations in order to get a release With the help of Mortimer&39;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&39;s strong-willed feminist-minded daughter Charlotte (Maggie Gyllenhaal)
Romantic comedy starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy, based loosely on the life of Joseph Mortimer Granville, the man who invented a somewhat unusual device for treating female hysteria. The film is set at the end of the 19th century, when an official medical technique for the treatment of female hysteria included 'massage of the pelvic area'. Dr Robert Dalrymple (Jonathan Pryce) has set up a surprisingly successful practice specialising in the treatment. Dashing young doctor Mortimer Granville (Dancy) joins the firm and proves particularly popular with the women who go there to have their hysteria alleviated. Mortimer also proves popular with Dalrymple's two daughters, Charlotte (Gyllenhaal) and Emily (Felicity Jones), who compete for his affection. Which one of the girls will he choose? And what is the device he has in mind for revolutionising the treatment of female hysteria?
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