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HYSTERIA
January 12, 2013  | By David Bianculli

Starz!, 9:00 p.m. ET

 
One of the most sexually suggestive and naughtily entertaining period British films since Tom Jones, this 2011 comedy is a romp based on truth: in the Victorian era, women were diagnosed with “female hysteria,” a catch-all diagnosis that is so widespread that, according to one eager doctor, “half the women in London are affected.” The prescribed treatment for this malady? Bringing the poor, unfortunate women to orgasm -- thanks to a doctor’s new invention, the vibrator. Stars include Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryce and Rupert Everett and, as some of the women, Maggie Guyllenhaal and Felicity Jones.
 
 
 
 
 
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