Directed by:
Tanya WexlerCinematography:
Sean BobbittComposer:
Gast WaltzingCast:
Hugh Dancy, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jonathan Pryce, Felicity Jones, Rupert Everett, Ashley Jensen, Sheridan Smith, Gemma Jones, Malcolm Rennie, Georgie Glen (more)Plots(1)
Hysteria is a romantic comedy wrapped around the surprising story of the first electro-mechanical vibrator, invented by happenstance at a time when the very peak of Victorian prudishness coincided with the dawn of the electrical age. London. 1880. Dr. Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy) is torn between the "proper" doctor's staid and static world of success and acceptance and a more progressive and fulfilling, but frowned upon, experience. Tossed out for his forward-thinking ideas by the medical establishment, Granville finds a position with Dr. Robert Dalrymple, a highly respected and successful doctor, with a very popular private practice specializing in treating women diagnosed with Hysteria. In his new position, Dalrymple finds Granville a proper suitor for his beloved daughter Emily, the epitome of "English virtue and womanliness", with her lovely face, demure manner and artistic and intellectual accomplishments, but it is the elder daughter Charlotte (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a firebrand social reformer, arguing passionately for women's rights to be educated, vote, and live independent lives that secretly excites him. Although Granville is somewhat shocked by Charlotte's lack of propriety, he feels kinship with her conviction to help those in need. They snipe at each other's views, but he earns her grudging respect when he treats a poor settlement house woman with a broken ankle. (Entertainment One)
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Hysteria
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Label: Lakeshore Records
Year: 2012
Country: USA
Format: digital
Length: 37:09
| 1. | Prologue | Christian Henson | 00:46 |
| 2. | Granville At The First Hospital | Christian Henson | 01:30 |
| 3. | Bloosy Dinosaur | Christian Henson | 01:08 |
| 4. | Granville Looks For Work | Christian Henson | 01:02 |
| 5. | Rigid Thrombus | Christian Henson | 01:13 |
| 6. | Slowly, In A Circular Motion | Christian Henson | 02:10 |
| 7. | Charlotte | Christian Henson | 00:39 |
| 8. | Granville Meets Charlotte | Christian Henson | 01:11 |
| 9. | Emily And Granville In The Corridor | Christian Henson | 01:00 |
| 10. | Introducing The Settlement House | Christian Henson | 01:09 |
| 11. | Suit Yourself | Christian Henson | 00:47 |
| 12. | Orgasmic Endeavors | Christian Henson | 01:20 |
| 13. | Duck's | Christian Henson | 00:56 |
| 14. | Proposing To Emily | Christian Henson | 02:40 |
| 15. | A House Call | Christian Henson | 00:36 |
| 16. | I Could Use The Help Of An Able Doctor | Christian Henson | 02:26 |
| 17. | Dismissed | Christian Henson | 01:52 |
| 18. | That's The Spot! | Christian Henson | 01:37 |
| 19. | Molly's Delight | Christian Henson | 01:00 |
| 20. | First Patient | Christian Henson | 00:37 |
| 21. | Charlotte Arrives At the Party | Christian Henson | 02:17 |
| 22. | The Aftermath / Charlotte In Prison | Christian Henson | 01:22 |
| 23. | Charlotte To Court | Christian Henson | 01:38 |
| 24. | Hysteria Is A Fiction | Christian Henson | 03:20 |
| 25. | Granville Proposes To Charlotte | Christian Henson | 02:23 |
| 26. | Ducks Reprise | Christian Henson | 00:30 |