I love this movie so much

To me, this movie is perfection.

Fresh and Exciting

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

I recommend watching this movie. It seems to have gone under the radar somewhat which is a shame as its a very enjoyable watch and full of good humour. It has a star cast and thus I cant understand why its not a well known film. The story is set in the late Victorian period and is just typically English in its comedy. The script is well written and the sets and costumes are excellent. The subject material is a little saucy at times but that's only to be expected considering the subject the film is covering. The actors performance's all work extremely well on screen and draw you in to the plot line. Its well worth a good night in front of the TV with friends.

Overall, very good acting, script, and cinematography. This is one of Maggie Gyllenhaal's finest performances. Although I've seen better portrayals, HYSTERIA captures Victorian England quite well. This film is also genuinely funny at times if one has some appreciation for the bawdy (although there's no nudity). It's often said that comedy is most effective in dramatizing serious conflicts and situations; however, I was a little uncertain on where this was going and how to take it until the very end, where what we are told and shown makes sense of at least most of it. Still, the various disparate themes--early feminism, the fallacious catch-all diagnosis of female "hysteria," and the history of the vibrator (?)--don't entirely tie together, and the whole film seems incomplete. It's also a little unclear on how factual or fictional certain details, such as the bit about the Queen herself, are supposed to be, and where the directors are trying to convey solid history and where they're just having fun.A good film, very interesting and entertaining, but not exactly a great one.

I had heard great things of this movie, so I was delighted to see it at my local video store, having missed it on release, and grabbed it. I was disappointed. I found Dr Granville Mortimer to be ineffectual and unconvincing, while the sister he wasn't engaged to was over the top and too ardent about her passionate fight for social(with incidentally the cleanest, smartest place in the slums ever seen), and real issues. I felt that the whole film was a token effort - the queues of middle aged ladies, the tidy slums, and the enormous leap between social classes, so easily made. I was disappointed to see the esteemed Jonathon Pryce in his role, I felt he could do better somehow. For me the film fell between two stools, neither really funny (just the odd chuckle) nor a solid statement about the state of women's life as it was. And so predictable with the sisters.

in late 1800s London is the center of this movie. It basically is a film about the invention of the vibrator. I don't know how much of it is true, but it was comical when all these old ladies go in for treatment for their hysteria. The story is about Dr. Granville whom joins the practice of Dr. Dalrymple in the treatment of hysteria. It seems half the female population is affected with it. So Granville sits in a session where we see the Dalrymple put a curtain over a woman's lower regions, oil up his hands, and stimulate. And to amazement, the women are very pleased with this. So Granville makes money, gets to help people and is intrigued by both Dalrmple's daughters, especially the independent one, Charolette. Granville has so many patients, his hand starts to hurt and he teams up with a doctor friend and they come up with a machine to stimulate. It starts out as a feather duster, then becomes more refined.FINAL VERDICT: This was in interesting film and was funny sometimes. Worth checking out.