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Hysteria
“A comedy about the birth of the vibrator in Victorian England.”
Cast
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
Tobias Menzies
Mr. Squyers
Malcolm Rennie
Lord St. John-Smythe
Kim Criswell
Mrs. Castellari
Georgie Glen
Mrs. Parsons
Elisabet Johannesdottir
Mrs. Pearce
Linda Woodhall
Nurse Smalley
Kim Selby
Lady Wheaton
Ann Overstall Comfort
Mrs. Huddleston
John Overstall
Mr. Huddleston
Todd Grinnell
Andy
David Ryall
Judge
Anna Chancellor
Mrs. Bellamy
Synopsis
Two doctors in Victorian England use manual stimulation of female genitalia to cure their patients' ills, leading to the invention of the vibrator.
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