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The Hours is a 2002 drama film directed by Stephen Daldry. The cast includes Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, and Ed Harris. David Hare and Michael Cunningham served as screenwriters, adapting the work from Michael Cunningham’s novel. The film was produced by Robert Fox and Scott Rudin, with production companies including Miramax and Paramount Pictures. It originated in the United Kingdom and the United States.
The narrative is set in London, New York City, New York, and California. Main subjects include suicide, dysfunctional families, and Virginia Woolf. Philip Glass composed the music, while Seamus McGarvey was the director of photography and Peter Boyle was the film editor. The film has a runtime of 114 minutes and is rated PG-13.
The Hours received the Academy Award for Best Actress, the National Board of Review Award for Best Film, and a spot on the National Board of Review’s Top Ten Films list. It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Director. The film has an IMDb rating of 7.5 and a Metascore of 80.
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7.3The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.
Cast
- Julianne Moore as Laura Brown
- Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf
- Meryl Streep as Clarissa Vaughan
- Stephen Dillane as Leonard Woolf
- Miranda Richardson as Vanessa Bell
- Linda Bassett as Nelly Boxall
Themes
- depression
- suicide
- london, england
- drowning
- based on novel or book
- aids
- self-destruction
- home
- poetry
- literature
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Ratings
IMDb
7.5/10
145,484 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
79%
Metacritic
80/100
- Year
- 2002
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- Won 1 Oscar. 43 wins & 126 nominations total
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- LGBTQ-related film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- The Hours
- Main subject
- Virginia Woolf
- Director
- Stephen Daldry
- Screenwriter
- David Hare
- Cast member
- Michael Culkin
- Composer
- Philip Glass
- Producer
- Scott Rudin
- Cinematographer
- Seamus McGarvey
- Narrative location
- England
- Filming location
- Pinewood Studios
- Duration
- 114
- FilmAffinity ID
- 530432
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.miramax.com/movie/the-hours
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- publication date
- 2003-03-27
- film editor
- Peter Boyle
- title
- The Hours
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Original Score
- after a work by
- Michael Cunningham
- distributed by
- Netflix
- costume designer
- Ann Roth
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- budget
- 25000000
- review score
- 79%
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Encyclopedic overview
The Hours is a 2002 psychological period drama film directed by Stephen Daldry from a screenplay by David Hare, based on the 1998 novel by Michael Cunningham. It stars Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, and Meryl Streep as three women whose lives are connected by Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel Mrs Dalloway. In 2001 New York, Clarissa Vaughan (Streep) prepares an award party for her AIDS-stricken friend and poet, Richard (Ed Harris). In 1951 California, Laura Brown (Moore) is a pregnant housewife in an unhappy marriage. In 1920s England, Virginia Woolf (Kidman) battles with depression while writing Mrs Dalloway. Supporting roles are played by Ed Harris, John C. Reilly, Stephen Dillane, Jeff Daniels, Miranda Richardson, Allison Janney, Toni Collette, Claire Danes, and Eileen Atkins.
The Hours premiered in Los Angeles and New York City on Christmas Day 2002 and was given a limited release in the United States two days later, before expanding in January 2003. A commercial success, it grossed $108.8 million on a $25 million production budget, and received generally favorable reviews with praise towards the performances of the lead trio. At the 75th Academy Awards, it received nine nominations, including Best Picture, with Kidman winning Best Actress. The film and novel were adapted into an opera in 2022.
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