The Hours (2002) Movie Overview

The Hours is a 2002 drama film directed by Stephen Daldry, and starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Ed Harris. The screenplay by David Hare is based on the 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same title by Michael Cunningham. The plot focuses on three women of different generations whose lives are interconnected by the novel Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. Among them are Clarissa Vaughan (Streep), a New Yorker preparing an award party for her AIDS-stricken long-time friend and poet, Richard (Harris) in 2001; Laura Brown (Moore), a pregnant 1950s California housewife with a young boy and an unhappy marriage; and Virginia Woolf herself (Kidman) in 1920s England, who is struggling with depression and mental illness whilst trying to write her novel. The film was released in Los Angeles and New York City on Christmas Day 2002, and was given a limited release in the US and Canada two days later on December 27, 2002. It did not receive a wide release in the US until January 2003, and was then released in UK cinemas on Valentine’s Day that year. Critical reaction to the film was mostly positive, and Nicole Kidman won an Oscar at the 2003 Academy Awards for her po… Source

• The Hours Movie Details
• Director: Stephen Daldry
• Official Sites: Paramount [us]
• Tagline: Three Different Women. Each Living a Lie.
• Country: USA , UK
• Run Time: 114 min
• Genre: Drama

• Cast Overview
• Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf
• Julianne Moore as Laura Brown
• Meryl Streep as Clarissa Vaughan
• Stephen Dillane as Leonard Woolf
• Miranda Richardson as Vanessa Bell
• George Loftus as Quentin Bell

The Hours Movie Overview – Yahoo Movies

The Hours (2002): Spanning across various time periods in the 20th Century, a drama which revolves around three very different women: two of whom have been profoundly affected by the works of Virginia Woolf; the other woman is Woolf, herself. All three are battling with issues of freedom, responsibility and identity. As the story unfolds, they are… Source

The Hours Movie Review from New York Times

This remarkably faithful and moving screen adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning theme and variations on Virginia Woolf’s novel “Mrs. Dalloway” stars Nicole Kidman as the English author who committed suicide in 1941, and Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep as two of her literary and spiritual heirs. Ms. Kidman’s Woolf is one of the… Source

The Hours Movie Details from Imdb

In 1951, Laura Brown, a pregnant housewife, is planning a party for her husband, but she can’t stop reading the novel ‘Mrs. Dalloway’. Clarissa Vaughn, a modern woman living in present times is throwing a party for her friend Richard, a famous author dying of AIDS. These two stories are simultaneously linked to the work and life of Virginia Woolf,… Source

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