Hysteria

Resource Information

The work Hysteria represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in St. Catharines Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Hysteria

Statement of responsibility

Entertainment One presents an Informant Media & Forthcoming Films production in association with Beachfront Films & Chimera Films in co-production with By Alternative Pictures ... [et al.] ; produced by Sarah Curtis, Judy Cairo, Tracey Becker ; screenplay by Stephen Dyer and Jonah Lisa Dyer ; directed by Tanya Wexler

Contributor

• Henson, Christian, 1971-
• Jensen, Ashley
• Jones, Felicity
• Pryce, Jonathan
• Smith, Sheridan, 1981-
• Waltzing, Gast, 1956-
• Wexler, Tanya
• Beachfront Films (Firm)
• By Alternative Pictures (Firm)
• Chimera Films (Firm)
• Entertainment One (Firm : Canada)
• Forthcoming Films (Firm)
• Informant Media (Firm)
• Becker, Tracey
• Cairo, Judy
• Curtis, Sarah
• Dancy, Hugh, 1975-
• Dyer, Jonah Lisa
• Dyer, Stephen
• Everett, Rupert
• Gyllenhaal, Maggie, 1977-

Subject

• Granville, J. Mortimer, (Joseph Mortimer), 1833-1900 -- Fiction
• Romantic comedy films
• Sexual excitement -- Fiction
• Vibrators (Massage) -- Fiction
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Women -- Sexual behavior -- Fiction
• London (England) -- Fiction
• Historical films
• Biographical films
• Comedy films
• Feature films
• Female orgasm -- Fiction

Genre

• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Fiction

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng
• eng

Summary

Set in Victorian London, Tanya Wexler's period comedy Hysteria tells the tale of Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy), a young doctor disturbed by the way most hospitals ignore the latest research on germ theory, and still treat patients with bleedings and leeches. After being fired from his most recent job for speaking out on the matter, he ends up in the employ of Dr. Robert Dalrymple (Jonathan Pryce) who runs a private practice specializing in treating women who suffer from "hysteria" and come to the doctor for his precise digital manipulations in order to get a release. With the help of Mortimer's best friend Edmund (Rupert Everett) together they create a device that allows these women to achieve the desired result much more quickly. Complicating matters, Mortimer becomes enamored of Dalrymple's strong-willed, feminist-minded daughter Charlotte (Maggie Gyllenhaal)

Member of

• Hysteria (Motion picture : 2011)

Cataloging source

lbi

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Music, Gast Waltzing ; additional music, Christian Henson ; costume designer, Nic Ede ; editor, Jon Gregory ; production designer, Sophie Becher ; director of photography, Sean Bobbitt

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A

Language note

• Audio tracks in English and French and subtitled in English
• With optional English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired (SDH)

PerformerNote

Hugh Dancy, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jonathan Pryce, Felicity Jones, Rupert Everett, Sheridan Smith, Ashley Jensen

Runtime

100

Target audience

general

Technique

live action