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Hysteria
Directed by
Tanya Wexler
R
2011
1h 40m
Comedy
,
Romance
,
and more
6.7
59%
54%
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The truth of how Mortimer Granville devised the invention of the first vibrator in the name of medical science.
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Cast of Hysteria
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
David Schaal
Tough Guy
Nicholas Woodeson
Dr. Richardson
Ellie Jacob
Nurse
Hysteria Ratings & Reviews
Detroit News
Tom Long
Director Tanya Wexler plays things broadly at times, but "Hysteria" has good fun with history while coming off far more wholesome than salacious.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Good vibrations all around.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
As a sex-education comedy, "Hysteria" is flaccid, forced and unfunny.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Its 95 minutes move along nicely, and Everett - languid as a cat in a sunbeam - makes his too-brief scenes into master classes of comedy.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The problem with "Hysteria" is that it keeps patting itself and us on the back for knowing better.
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
The movie also makes all the right noises about female sexual liberation. But its good intentions are undermined by sniggering jokes...
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
It's happy to get the big facts broadly right, as long as it's allowed to have a little fun with the rest.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
"Hysteria," with its period costumes and English accents, seems like a much better movie than it is.
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
It's as foregone as the extras hitting their marks with over-rehearsed precision and the filmmakers milking laughs from their comfortable perch in the 21st century.
Reel Talk Online
Candice Frederick
Effective acting and Tanya Wexler's direction of a taboo topic (especially given the era in which it's set) cannot save the unbearably choppy and uneven writing of the movie.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
For a light entertainment, this romantic comedy delivers an impressive amount of feminist rhetoric and historical detail.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The performances are spot on, and I especially like the spunky Gyllenhaal...
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
It doesn't really know what it is. A little of this, a little of that and by the time it's done, it adds up to not much at all.
New York Post
Sara Stewart
"Hysteria," set in 1880s London, is a light comedy about a pretty dark time for the fairer sex.
Film School Rejects
Kate Erbland
Creative takes on history (i.e. making up the good doctor's romantic travails) are fine enough, but not when their service cuts away at anything truly interesting and meaningful.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
It's as if they felt they had to work all that socially conscious stuff into the mix in order to justify the risqu humor.
TheWrap
Leah Rozen
Hysteria is a fun fling of a movie about medical science at its shakiest. Literally.
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Leonard Maltin
...what makes 'Hysteria' so entertaining is the larger picture it paints of repressed Victorian society. That it does so in the form of a farcical comedy makes it all the more enjoyable.
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Caryn James
Might have been a one-note joke, but Wexler, Dancy and Gyllenhaal make it a witty, slyly feminist comedy of sexual manners.
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