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DVD

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  • CENTRAL: Audiovisual Collection
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Hysteria

Call Number

  • DVD COMEDY (CEN, EAS, WSQ)

Languages

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

Hugh Dancy, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jonathan Pryce, Felicity Jones, Rupert Everett, Sheridan Smith, Ashley Jensen, Gemma Jones, Tobias Menzies, David Ryall, Anna Chancellor, David Schaal, Nicholas Woodeson.

Publication Information

Culver City, CA : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2012]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

MPAA rating: R; for sexual content.

Summary

In an age of invention, one man set out to find a medical cure for what ailed women and accidentally electrified our love lives forever. This film tells the surprising story of the birth of the electro-mechanical vibrator at the very peak of Victorian prudishness.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2011.

Special features: commentary with director Tanya Wexler ; Passion & power: the technology of orgasm ; An evening with Tanya Wexler, Hugh Dancy and Jonathan Pryce ; Hysteria: behind the scenes ; deleted scenes.

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