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Certificate 15

Cast Hugh Dancy Maggie Gyllenhaal Jonathan Pryce Felicity Jones Rupert Everett

Directors Tanya Wexler

Screenwriters Stephen Dyer Jonah Lisa Dyer

Running Time 99 minutes

Hysteria
Sex Toy Story

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Plot
Victorian London. Young physician Mortimer Granville (Dancy) gains work as an assistant to Dr. Robert Dalrymple (Pryce), who treats female patients for “hysteria” by giving them manual relief. When Granville begins to suffer from repetitive strain injury, his inventor pal, Edmund St. John-Smythe (Everett), comes up with a mechanical solution and the vibrator is born. Meanwhile, Granville courts Emily Dalrymple (Jones) and befriends her feisty sister, Charlotte (Gyllenhaal).

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