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Original title: Hours, The
Release Date
• USA: Dec 27, 2002
• UK: 14 Feb 2003
DVD Release Date
• R1: Jun 24, 2003
• R2: 17 Nov 2003
Budget $25,000,000
Official Website:
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MPAA Rating
Rated PG-13 for mature thematic elements, some disturbing images and brief language.
Running Time
1 hour, 54 minutes
Country USA | UK
Production Companies
Paramount Pictures, Miramax Films, Scott Rudin Productions
Studio Miramax, Paramount Pictures, Robert Fox, Scott Rudin Productions
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Other Titles
• The Hours (2002)
• The Hours - Von Ewigkeit zu Ewigkeit (2003)
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Genre: Drama, Tragedy, Gay/Lesbian, Period Piece, Psychodrama, Mental Illness, Doctor
Tagline: Three Different Women. Each Living a Lie.
Plot: 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
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