Accidental Pleasure

Maggie Gyllenhaal is going to star in Hysteria, an indie rom-com centering on...uhh...the invention of the vibrator.

The Crazy Heart Academy Award nominee will play the daughter of a doctor (Jonathan Pryce), who, along with his young colleague (the dashing Hugh Dancy, whose Adam I recently finally saw and loved), is treating cases of female hysteria in Victorian London.

Dancy and his best friend (to be played by Rupert Everett) experiment with a new electrical device to treat the condition, which, used to be treated and cured by some with a manual pelvic massage.

How...convienient for the doctors, huh. And how serendipitous for the ladies.

Photo: Maggie-Gyllenhaal.org.