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Hysteria
2011
· Movie
· 100 min
C
MEANRANK
63/100
Every rating
53–70
out of 100
Everyone agrees
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 53, highest is Trakt on 70.
See the most agreed on films →In Victorian London, a progressive young doctor takes a job working for a physician who specializes in treating women for "hysteria," a common diagnosis for various female complaints. The treatment involves manual stimulation to induce "paroxysms." The doctor's work leads him to inadvertently become involved in the invention of the first electric vibrator.
Details
- Director
- Tanya Wexler
- Writers
- Howard Gensler, Jonah Lisa Dyer, Stephen Dyer
- Released
- 6 June 2011
- Country
- United Kingdom, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Switzerland
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Rated
- R
- Box office
- $9.5M