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'Hysteria': Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy star in dutiful comedy ✭✭

However it's handled, the story of the invention of the electric vibrator cries out for more stimulating treatment than "Hysteria," a film left wanting for a tone and a surer sense of period.

Michael Phillips

May 24, 2012

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