Hysteria (2011) romantic movie download free

Hysteria is a 2011 British romantic comedy film directed by Tanya Wexler. It stars Felicity Jones, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Rupert Everett and Hugh Dancy. The film, set in the Victorian era, shows how the medical management of hysteria led to the invention of the vibrator. The film's title refers to the once-common medical diagnosis of female hysteria.

Plot of Hysteria (2011)

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, eliciting "paroxysmal convulsions", far from recognizing that they were inducing orgasms. In the movie, the young physician Dr. Mortimer Granville gets a job to help Dr. Dalrymple who runs a successful practice treating women. He seems to be good at massaging, getting a sizable following. The job is strenuous and his hand musculature is unable to keep up with the task. Fortunately, his friend Lord Edmund St. John-Smythe has developed an electrical duster, and its vibrations give Dr. Granville the idea to modify the gadget. As such, the vibrator enters the stage as a medical device for the treatment of the condition. Parallel to this story Dr. Granville seems to develop a liking for the demure Victorian girl Emily Dalrymple, before falling in love with her older sister Charlotte, a premodern feminist firebrand.

Cast of Hysteria (2011)

    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 (as Ann Comfort)

    Jonathan Rhodes as PC Fugate

    Leila Anaïs Schaus as Tess (as Leila Schaus)