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The Hours, 2002

Starring: Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep

Directed by: Stephen Daldry

Written by: David Hare

Language: English

Country: USA, UK

Runtime: 114 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:7.6

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The Hours can be described as clever, contemplative, and gloomy. The plot revolves around terminal illness, mental instability, and a midlife crisis. The main genres are drama and period. In terms of style, The Hours involves multiple stories and stars a strong female character. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It is set, at least in part, in the suburbs. The Hours is located in London, Los Angeles, and New York. It takes place in the 1920s, in the 1950s, and in contemporary times. It is based on a book. The Hours has received attention for being an Oscar winner and critically acclaimed.

Summary of The Hours

Based on the Pulitzer-prize winning novel by Michael Cunningham, THE HOURS employs Virginia Woolf's classic novel and central character, MRS. DALLOWAY, as its foundation and inspiration. Spanning three different eras, during one day, the film focuses on the parallel lives of three women joined in their depression, alienation, and search for love. Nicole Kidman, wearing a prosthetic nose, is virtually unrecognizable as the tortured writer Virginia Woolf whose ongoing battle with mental illness eventually led to her tragic suicide in 1941. The film begins with the moment of her suicide and flashes back on her life and work as she crafted her most memorable character, Clarissa Dalloway, in 1923. In 1950's California suburbia another woman, Laura Brown (Julianne Moore), struggles with alienation and depression. Trapped by her clinging young son and an adoring husband whom she does not love, the desperate woman tries to prepare for her husband's birthday but cannot stop reading MRS. DALLOWAY. Finally, in modern day Manhattan, Clarissa Vaughn (Meryl Streep), a lesbian who lives with her lover (Allison Janney) and her daughter (Claire Danes), struggles to prepare a party for her ex-husband (Ed Harris) who is dying of AIDS. Director Stephen Daltry uses beautiful overlapping editing to sew the women's interwoven stories seamlessly together. At the core of this profoundly moving film is the trio of award-winning actresses who grace the screen with their bold and awe-inspiring performances.

Details

Language:	English
Country:	USA, UK
Release date:	18 December 2002
Runtime:	114 min
Awards:	Academy Awards

Awards

Nicole Kidman for Best Actress at the 2002 Academy Awards

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Nicole Kidman

as Virginia Woolf

Meryl Streep

as Clarissa Vaughan

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Nicole Kidman and director Stephen Daldry on the set of The Hours (2002)

Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf in The Hours (2002)

Meryl Streep in The Hours (2002)

Julianne Moore as Laura Brown in The Hours (2002)

John C. Reilly as Dan Brown in The Hours (2002)

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Variety

Considerable intelligence and strategic finesse have been brought to bear on this handsomely mounted adaptation of Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which was hardly a natural for the bigscreen. Full Review

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by: Todd McCarthy

The New York Times

Ms. Kidman, in a performance of astounding bravery, evokes the savage inner war waged by a brilliant mind against a system of faulty wiring that transmits a searing, crazy static into her brain. Full Review

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by: Stephen Holden

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THE HOURS: The entire film is beautifully done, the actors give wonderful performances, I would say that this is the best work ever done by Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore. Even knowing that Nicole Kidman is wearing a prosthetic nose to look more... Read and rate it

10.January.2011
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by: Netflowers
Netflowers rated this movie0/10

I watched this less than a month ago. I remember liking it, and thinking that the actresses did a fantastic job. And yet, a month on, I simply cannot remember more than a small handful of scenes, and I have no idea how any of the stories byond the... Read and rate it

02.July.2009
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by: Michael Cain
Michael Cain rated this movie0/10

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