It’s hard not to like any movie where Rupert Everett, playing a gadget-loving Victorian homosexual, invents the electric vibrator.

In Tanya Wexler’s hysterically funny Victorian sex comedy, Everett does this for the benefit of his platonic pal, a physician (Hugh Dancy, channeling the stammering Hugh Grant) suffering repetetive strain injury from manually manipulating the clitorises of middle-aged women suffering from an “epidemic” of “hysteria” gripping ondon in the 1880s.

This crowd-pleaser also showcases Maggie Gyllenhaal as the feisty social-reformer daughter of Dancy’s employer, played by the great Jonathan Pryce as his employer — who’d prefer Dancy court his more demure daughter (Felicity Jones).