'Hysteria' is a lighthearted romantic comedy based on the surprising truth of how Dr. Mortimer Granville came up with the world's first electro-mechanical vibrator. Academy Award nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy lead an accomplished cast in this untold tale of Victorian discovery, as a young doctor's quest to work out the key to women's happiness leads him to his own. The time is the 1880's, the very peak of Victorian prudishness but also the dawn of the electrical age. In London, the brilliant and devoted young doctor, Mortimer Granville (Dancy) has just lost his hospital position for his insistent belief in a new fangled idea called 'germ theory' and needs a new job. He finds it with Dr. Robert Dalrymple (Jonathan Pryce), London's "foremost specialist in women's medicine". An expert in 'hysteria,' Dr. Dalrymple is besieged by an alarming epidemic of women suffering from a wide variety of symptoms that include "weeping, nymphomania, frigidity, melancholia, and anxiety." Luckily, Dalrymple's 'manual massage' cure is shockingly effective. The handsome young doctor soon has women queuing around the block and finds himself engaged to the boss's younger daughter, the perfect and beautiful Emily Dalrymple (Felicity Jones). All this success comes at a cost. Mortimer finds himself dealing with both extreme hand cramps and the fiery disapproval of Dalrymple's vexing elder daughter, Charlotte (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a champion of poor women's rights, who accuses both her father and the young doctor of being "quacks." Losing his physician's touch, Mortimer can no longer satisfy his patients. As a result, he yet again loses his job and with it, his fiancee. With nowhere else to go, he turns to his lifelong friend the forward-thinking Edmund St. John-Smythe (Rupert Everett). Edmund, obsessed with the 'new' science of electricity, unveils the plans for the new electric-powered feather duster, which gives the doctor a compelling idea...the result will revitalize his medical practice, thrill his patients and upend his heart, as Charlotte begins to teach him more about how women really work -- and what they actually want -- than he ever bargained for. The result is a witty, winning comedy that not only reveals how the vibrator became one of the first electrical appliances in history to earn a patent -- but also, sends sparks flying between a cautious man and a liberated woman brought together by the wonders of friction. Please visit ~ http://www.rogereb