Hysteria
- Release Date
- June 6, 2011
- Director
- Tanya Wexler
- Cast
- Hugh Dancy , Maggie Gyllenhaal , Jonathan Pryce , Felicity Jones , Rupert Everett , Ashley Jensen
- Runtime
- 95
- Main Genre
- Comedy
- Writers
- Stephen Dyer , Jonah Lisa Dyer , Howard Gensler
- Tagline
- He created an invention that turned on half the world.
Summary
London. 1880. Dr. Mortimer Granville (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. Indeed, the good doctor’s waiting room is never quiet. 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 (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.
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