The Hours (2002) USA
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Director:Stephen Daldry
Studio:Paramount
Writer:Michael Cunningham, David Hare
Rating:4.0 (347 votes)
Rated:PG-13
ASIN:B00005JKTI
UPC:9780792187127
Price:$9.98
Awards:Won Oscar. Another 30 wins & 58 nominations
Genre:Drama
Release:2003-06-24
IMDb:0274558
Duration:114
Picture Format:Widescreen
Aspect Ratio:1.85:1
Sound:Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Languages:English
Subtitles:English
Features:Filmmakers introduction
"Three Women"
"The Music of The Hours
Stephen Daldry  ...  (Director)
Michael Cunningham, David Hare  ...  (Writer)
 
Nicole Kidman  ...  Virginia Woolf
Julianne Moore  ...  Laura Brown
Meryl Streep  ...  Clarissa Vaughan
Stephen Dillane  ...  Leonard Woolf
Miranda Richardson  ...  Vanessa Bell
George Loftus  ...  Quentin Bell
Charley Ramm  ...  Julian Bell
Sophie Wyburd  ...  Angelica Bell
Lyndsey Marshal  ...  Lottie Hope (as Lyndsay Marshal)
Linda Bassett  ...  Nelly Boxall
Christian Coulson  ...  Ralph Partridge
Michael Culkin  ...  Doctor
John C. Reilly  ...  Dan Brown
Jack Rovello  ...  Richie
Toni Collette  ...  Kitty
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Summary: THE HOURS tells the story of three very different individuals who share the feeling that they have been living their lives for someone else. Virginia Woolf (Kidman) lives in a suburb of London in the 1920's as she struggles to begin writing her first great novel, Mrs. Dalloway, while also attempting to overcome the mental illness that threatens to engulf her. Laura Brown (Moore), a young wife and mother in post-World War II Los Angeles, is just starting to read Mrs. Dalloway, and is so deeply affected by it that she begins to question the life she has chosen for herself. Then, in contemporary New York City, Clarissa Vaughan (Streep) is a modern-day mirror image of Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway as she plans what may be the final party for her friend and former lover, Richard (Harris), who is dying of AIDS.