Two doctors in Victorian England use manual stimulation of female genitalia to cure their patients' ills, leading to the invention of the vibrator.
Acting
Gyllenhaal's firebrand feminist steals every scene she's in.
Writing
Somehow makes 'hysteria' hysterical without being tasteless.
Costume
Corsets and crinolones hiding absolute chaos underneath.
Director
Tanya Wexler
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
Kim Selby
Lady Wheaton
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The first electric vibrator was patented in 1880, predating the vacuum cleaner and electric iron by nearly a decade. Priorities, people.
Director Tanya Wexler is actually the great-great-granddaughter of the Mortimer Granville who invented the vibrator—this movie is literally family history.
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