In 1880 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.
Release Date: 14 December 2011Runtime:
Stars:
- Ashley Jensen
- Elisabet Johannesdottir
- Felicity Jones
- Gemma Jones
- Georgie Glen
- Hugh Dancy
- John Overstall
- Jonathan Pryce
- Kim Criswell
- Kim Selby
- Linda Woodhall
- Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Malcolm Rennie
- Rupert Everett
- Sheridan Smith
Director: Tanya Wexler
