Movie poster for The Hours

The Hours is a 2002 drama film about three women of different generations and times whose lives are interconnected by the novel Mrs. Dalloway, written by Virginia Woolf, all taking place within the span of one day. Nicole Kidman portrays renowned British author Woolf, Julianne Moore plays a troubled 1950s housewife who is reading the novel Mrs. Dalloway, and Meryl Streep plays a book editor in the 2000s who is arranging a party for a friend who is to receive an award for his collection of poems. He is also dying from AIDS. Miranda Richardson (as Woolf's older sister Vanessa Bell), Toni Collette, Claire Danes, Ed Harris, Allison Janney and John C. Reilly also star. The Hours movie poster. ... The Hours movie poster. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A drama is a film that depends mostly on in-depth character development and interaction. ... Generation is the act of producing offspring, or procreation. ... Vanessa Redgrave as Clarissa Dalloway Mrs Dalloway (1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf detailing one day in Clarissa Dalloways life about post-World War I England. ... Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941) was a British author and feminist. ... Nicole (Mary) Kidman (born June 20, 1967) is an Academy Award winning Australian actress, producer, and singer. ... Julianne Moore Julianne Moore (born Julie Anne Smith on December 3, 1960 in Fayetteville, North Carolina) is an American actress who first came to fame playing the Daytime Emmy Award-winning roles of Frannie and Sabrina Hughes on the soap opera As the World Turns. ... Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the... Streep in Silkwood (1983) Meryl Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress who has received numerous accolades for her work in movies and television and who, from the 1980s to the present day, has been regarded as one of the best in her field. ... Major controversy over U.S. presidential election, 2000 September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on New Yorks World Trade Center and Virginias Pentagon killing almost 3000 people. ... Miranda Richardson Mini Biography Miranda Richardson (Born 3 March 1958, in Southport, Lancashire) is a British actress. ... Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) was an English painter and interior designer and a member of the Bloomsbury group. ... It is requested that an image(s) should be included, to improve the articles quality. ... Claire Danes on the cover of Marie Claire Claire Catherine Danes (born April 12, 1979 in New York City) is an American film actress. ... Ed Harris (born November 28, 1950) is an American actor. ... Allison Brooks Janney (born 19 November 1960) is an American actress, best known as C.J. Cregg on the television series The West Wing. ... John Christopher Reilly (born May 25, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor. ...

The film's sceenplay was written by David Hare, based on the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award winning 1998 novel, The Hours, by Michael Cunningham. The film was directed by Stephen Daldry, with a soundtrack by Philip Glass. Film was released December 18, 2002. David Hare (born June 5, 1947) is an English dramatist. ... Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-04-13, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to an American author. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is an award-winning American writer/novelist, best known for his 1998 novel The Hours. ... Stephen David Daldry, CBE (born May 2, 1961 in Dorset, England, United Kingdom) is a British movie director and producer. ... Philip Glass looks upon sheet music in a portrait taken by Annie Leibovitz. ...

One of the most acclaimed films of 2002, The Hours received a number of awards and nominations. While winning the 2003 Golden Globe Best Dramatic Film honor, the film was largely shut out of its 9 Academy Award nominations. The film did, however, launch Kidman forward as one of Hollywood's most able dramatic actresses. Kidman won both the Golden Globe and the Oscar for Best Actress. Kidman's portrayal in the film, in which she wore a prosthetic nose, highlighted the Hollywood rumor that beautiful actresses can only receive the best dramatic roles once they diminish their physical attributes in a role. Other examples are Halle Berry's and Charlize Theron's wins in 2002 and 2004 respectively. 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1944 - The Song of Bernadette 1945 - Going My Way 1946 - The Lost Weekend 1947 - The Best Years of Our Lives 1948 - Gentlemans Agreement 1949 - Johnny Belinda; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1950 - All the Kings Men 1951 - Sunset Boulevard 1952 - A Place in the Sun 1953 - The... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... For other uses, see Hollywood (disambiguation) Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the City of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that runs from about Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to... 1944 - Jennifer Jones, The Song of Bernadette 1945 - Ingrid Bergman, Gaslight 1946 - Ingrid Bergman, The Bells of St. ... The Academy Award for Best Actress is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... Halle Berry on the poster of Introducing Dorothy Dandridge Halle Maria Berry (born August 14, 1966,) is an American actress. ... Charlize Theron at the Academy Awards ceremony 2005. ... The Academy Award for Best Actress is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ...

Quotes

• You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
• A woman's whole life, in a single day, just one day, and in that day, her whole life.
• What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear.
• I am ungrateful? You call ME ungrateful? My life has been stolen from me. I'm living in a town I have no wish to live in... I'm living a life I have no wish to live... How did this happen?
• If I were thinking clearly, Leonard, I would tell you that I wrestle alone in the dark, in the deep dark, and that only I can know. Only I can understand my own condition. You live with the threat, you tell me you live with the threat of my extinction. Leonard, I live with it too.
• This is my right; it is the right of every human being. I choose not the suffocating anesthetic of the suburbs, but the violent jolt of the Capital, that is my choice. The meanest patient, yes, even the very lowest is allowed some say in the matter of her own prescription. Thereby she defines her humanity. I wish, for your sake, Leonard, I could be happy in this quietness. [pause] But if it is a choice between Richmond and death, I choose death.

Brief Cast

• Nicole Kidman ... as Virginia Woolf
• Julianne Moore ... as Laura Brown
• Meryl Streep ... as Clarissa Vaughn
• Stephen Dillane ... as Leonard Woolf
• Miranda Richardson ... as Vanessa Bell
• John C. Reilly ... as Dan Brown
• Toni Collette ... as Kitty Barlowe

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Plot Summary

The story of how the novel Mrs. Dalloway affects three generations of women (Virginia Woolf writes the story, Laura Brown reads it, and Clarissa Vaughn lives it), all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives. A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... Vanessa Redgrave as Clarissa Dalloway Mrs Dalloway (1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf detailing one day in Clarissa Dalloways life about post-World War I England. ... Generation is the act of producing offspring, or procreation. ... Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of intentionally ending ones own life; it is sometimes a noun for one who has committed, or attempted the act. ...

Tagline: The time to hide is over. The time to regret is gone. The time to live is now.

Awards Won

• 2002 Academy Award for Best Actress - Nicole Kidman
• 2003 Amanda Award (Norway) - Best Foreign Feature Film - Stephen Daldry
• 2003 American Cinema Editors Eddie Award - Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic - Peter Boyle
• 2003 Art Directors Guild - Excellence in Production Design Award - Feature Film - Contemporary Films - Maria Djurkovic

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Award Nominations

• 2002 Academy Award for Best Costume Design - Ann Roth
• 2002 Academy Award for Directing - Stephen Daldry
• 2002 Academy Award for Film Editing - Peter Boyle
• 2002 Academy Award for Original Music Score - Philip Glass
• 2002 Academy Award for Best Picture
• 2002 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor - Ed Harris
• 2002 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - Julianne Moore
• 2002 Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay - David Hare from the novel by Michael Cunningham

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External links

• Official site (http://www.thehoursmovie.com/)
• The Hours (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274558/) at the Internet Movie Database