

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
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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