SPC Get Off on ‘Hysteria’; Post TIFF Deal is Perfect for Distributor’s Demo

“Stimulated” by their most recent pick-up in TIFF audience award’s Where Do We Go Now?, Sony Pictures Classics are supposedly, as we had suggested prior to its world premiere, interested in another crowd-pleaser in Tanya Wexler’s Hysteria. With Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, Felicity Jones and Jonathan Pryce on board, producers should be able to fetch a good deal for the pic — THR reports that a deal is near on U.S. and South Africa rights, so a confirmation for the deal and more thn likely a 2012 showing shouldn’t be too far off.

Gist: Based on a true story, set in Victorian England about the invention of the first vibrator. Victorian England, 1880. Mortimer Granville, a young doctor sick of his colleagues’ medieval practices, starts working for Dr Dalrymple, who treats women’s “hysteria” by offering them intimate manual relief… Demand is so great that Mortimer fears for the use of his hands.

Worth Noting: Despite the premise — the project took close to five years to get off the ground.

Do We Care?: This isn’t Kinsey folks. Keeping with the Victorian slang – this isn’t doesn’t appear to be our cup of tea.