Feel Warm All Over
10/10
Author: Chi Li Wong from United States
13 May 2012

Mostly charming and just a bit naughty this film is a little gem of a romantic comedy. Maggie G. and Hugh D. are delightfully at odds while touching on issues of women's rights, class and medical practices of the day. There are some truly laugh out loud moments. Don't miss this one. I promise you, like the women in the film, you're going to feel much better afterwards!

From Indie Wire:

Director Tanya Wexler and writers Stephen Dyer and Jonah Lisa Dyer take full advantage, giving us a truly hilarious look at the oppressive scientific ideas that used to surround female sexuality.

The based-on-true-events story is that of Dr. Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy), who is having trouble finding work in the squalor of London's old-fashioned hospitals (which are portrayed with the dark sensibility of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"). He finally ends up working for Dr. Robert Dalrymple (Jonathan Pryce), an expert in female hysteria.

The basis of the practice, built around this now defunct sexually-associated diagnosis, is *ahem* manual stimulation. Initially Dr. Granville gets along just fine, developing well-intentioned feelings for his superior's morally fibrous phrenologist daughter Emily (Felicity Jones). Yet her sister, the passionate suffragette and social activist Charlotte (Maggie Gyllenhaal), throws everything ff-kilter.