Things could be worse, but these actors and themes merit more. Exipure is a new weight loss supplement that targets BAT levels, the root cause of unexplained weight gains according to. Skip to content. Marketplace Obits. San Francisco Examiner Media Company. John Overstall Mr.
Huddleston as Mr. Ann Overstall Comfort Mrs. Huddleston as Mrs. Huddleston as Ann Comfort. Tanya Wexler. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. In pioneering doctor Mortimer Granville,sacked from various hospitals for challenging his superiors' out-moded methods,gets a job with Dr Dalrymple,who relieves female patients' frustrations - or hysteria - with pelvic massages which allow orgasm. The handsome young doctor attracts a large female clientele and gets engaged to Dalrymple's studious younger daughter Emily but after the constant massaging brings on a carpal injury he is sacked.
Fortunately an enterprising inventor friend has come up with a power operated feather duster which will soon be transformed into a vibrator and make Mortimer a fortune. Along the way he also realises that his heart really lies with Emily's older sister Charlotte,an outspoken suffragette who runs a home for disadvantaged women in London's East End.
A comedy about the birth of the vibrator in Victorian England. Rated R for sexual content. Did you know Edit. Trivia Dr.
Granville's electromechanical vibrator was portable but had a wet cell battery that weighed about 40 pounds. Goofs The film suggests that the Granville Electric was the first mechanical vibrator. While it pioneered the use of electricity in the vibrator, hand-cranked models existed before the Granville. Quotes [first lines] Mrs.
Crazy credits During the end credits images of several different vibrators throughout history are shown. Connections Featured in Maltin on Movies: Battleship In , he wrote: "I have avoided, and shall continue to avoid, the treatment of women by percussion, simply because I do not want to be hoodwinked, and help to mislead others, by the vagaries of the hysterical state.
Pity poor Mrs Granville. The film leaves out the real Mrs Granville, and instead sets up a fictional romantic dilemma for its hero between Dr Dalrymple's two daughters: dull, doe-eyed goody-goody Emily, or feisty, passionate social justice advocate Charlotte Maggie Gyllenhaal. Which one will he choose? Bet you can't guess! It's made more amiable than it might have been by some decent performances, especially Gyllenhaal's.
Charlotte's impassioned feminist speech when she ends up in court for bopping a copper on the nose is a little fanciful, but you can see what the film is going for. Goodness knows what the real Dr Granville would have made of that lot. One of the pleasures of Wexler's third feature is how elegantly it sets its story in the period. The costumes, the sets, the locations and the behavior are all flawless, and the British characters in the screenplay by Stephen Dyer and Jonah Lisa Dyer are all masters of never quite saying what they mean.
Of course the Dalrymple practice is quite ethical, because there is no such thing as a female having pleasure from sex; the exact nature of the complaint being treated is sometimes described as "wandering uterus," which for some reason makes me think of an albatross around its neck. The film is based on fact. The performances are spot on, and I especially like the spunky Gyllenhaal, who with this film and the underrated " Secretary " , has built up a nice sideline in sexual exploration.
The subject of vibrators has been under discussion after the publication of The Technology of Orgasm by Rachel Maines, and it was Wexler's inspiration to see that the invention was all the more remarkable since it developed at a time when it treated a condition that officially didn't exist.
That was in contrast with many then-contemporary medical treatments, which didn't treat conditions that officially did exist. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.
Rated R for sexual content. Maggie Gyllenhaal as Charlotte.
0コメント