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Today's movie was the light costume comedy

Hysteria (2011)

which chronicles the invention of the vibrator and the demise of the theory of female hysteria.

Hugh Dancy and Maggie Gyllenhaal are the couple of interest.

She runs a settlement house and he has a lucrative practice manipulating rich women's uteri.

His hand gets tendonitis and he invents the vibrator.

Around this a simple comedy and romance are built. Jonathyn Price is the villain, sort of, but not very mean.

Nothing bad happens here. A lot of elevating stuff about the emancipation of women is always worthwhile especially in a season where some people would take a lot of what passed as progress away and put us right back in the Victorian era when this film takes place.

Light, light, light but fun and funny.

I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5.

Labels: films