The Hours (DVD)

The Hours is a 2002 American psychological drama film directed by Stephen Daldry and starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman. 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 screenplay by David Hare is based on Michael Cunningham s 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name.

The plot focuses on three women of different generations whose lives are interconnected by the 1925 novel Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. The women are Clarissa Vaughan (Streep), a New Yorker preparing an award party for her AIDS-stricken long-time friend and poet, Richard (Harris) in 2001; Laura Brown (Moore), a pregnant 1950s California housewife in an unhappy marriage, with a young son; and Virginia Woolf (Kidman) herself in 1920s England, who is struggling with depression and mental illness while trying to write her novel.

The film was theatrically released in Los Angeles and New York City on Christmas Day 2002, and was given a limited release in the United States two days later on December 27 before expanding in January 2003. Critical reaction to the film was positive, with nine Academy Award nominations for The Hours including Best Picture, and a win for Nicole Kidman for Best Actress.

Plot

With the exception of the opening and final scenes, which depict the 1941 suicide by drowning of Virginia Woolf in the River Ouse, the film takes place within the span of a single day in three different decades and alternates between them following three women: Virginia Woolf in 1923, Laura Brown in 1951, and Clarissa Vaughan in 2001. The following plot summary has been simplified and is in chronological order, not the order as presented in the film.

1923

Virginia Woolf has begun writing the book Mrs Dalloway in her home in the town of Richmond outside London. Virginia has experienced several nervous breakdowns and suffers from depression. She is constantly under the eye of her servants and her husband, Leonard, who has begun a publishing business at home, Hogarth Press, to stay close to her. Virginia s sister, Vanessa, and her children, Julian, Quentin, and Angelica, come over for an afternoon visit. She and Virginia talk about Vanessa s life in London and Virginia s mental condition. She longs for a life similar to Vanessa, living in London. Vanessa s children find a dead bird. Virginia and Angelica make a funeral for the bird. Virginia lies down beside the bird and looks into its eyes. She sees herself in the dead bird, suffering and dying in her circumstances. Everyone goes back inside and Virginia continues writing her book. She says that she was going to kill her heroine but instead chooses to kill another character in the book. Before Vanessa leaves, Virginia passionately kisses her sister. It is clear Virginia wants them to stay and wants her sister s life. After their departure, Virginia flees to the train station, where she is awaiting a train to London. Leonard arrives to stop her, and they argue. He tells her that Richmond was intended to soothe her mental illness and that he lives in constant fear that she will take her own life. She replies that she also lives with that fear but argues that she has the right to choose her own destiny and that she would prefer London, even if it means her death, to remaining stifled in Richmond. Leonard mournfully concedes, and they return home, where Virginia begins writing again. Leonard questions her as to why someone has to die. Virginia says “In order that the rest of us should value life more.” Leonard asks who will die and Virginia says The poet will die, the visionary.”

1951

Pregnant with her second child, Laura Brown spends her days in her tract home in Los Angeles with her young son, Richie, and escapes from her conventional life by reading Mrs Dalloway. She married her husband, Dan, soon after World War II. On the surface they are living the American Dream, but she is nonetheless deeply unhappy. She and Richie make a cake for Dan s birthday, but it is a disaster. Her neighbor Kitty drops in to ask her if she can feed her dog while she s in the hospital for a procedure. Kitty reveals that the procedure is related to the fact that she has been unable to conceive, and may portend permanent infertility, and that she really feels that a woman is not complete until she is a mother. Kitty tries to stay upbeat, but Laura senses her sadness and fear and embraces her. Laura escalates this comforting gesture into a passionate kiss; Kitty then leaves, politely refusing to acknowledge the kiss. Laura and Richie successfully make another cake and clean up, and then she takes Richie to stay with a babysitter, Mrs. Latch. Richie runs after his mother in anguish as she drives away, fearing that she will never come back. Laura checks in to a hotel, where she intends to commit suicide. Laura removes several bottles of pills and Mrs Dalloway from her purse and begins to read it. She drifts off to sleep and dreams the hotel room is flooded. She awakens with a change of heart and caresses her belly. She picks up Richie and kisses him, and they return home to celebrate Dan s birthday. Dan gratefully says the dream of this domestic happiness is what kept him going during the war, seemingly oblivious to Laura s dissatisfaction.

2001

Clarissa Vaughan, a literary editor in New York City, shares a first name with the novel s title character. She spends the day preparing to host a party in honor of her friend and ex-lover Richard, a moody poet and author living with AIDS who is to receive a major literary award. Clarissa was in a relationship with Richard during their college years, but has spent the past 10 years living with a female partner, Sally Lester, while also caring for Richard during his illness. Richard tells Clarissa that he has only stayed alive for her sake and that the award is meaningless, given more to acknowledge his illness than for the work itself. She tries reassuring him. Richard often refers to Clarissa as Mrs. Dalloway – her namesake – because she distracts herself from her own life the way that the Woolf character does. Clarissa returns home, surprised to meet Richard s ex-lover Louis Waters, who has returned for the festivities. Louis and Clarissa discuss Richard s use of their real lives in his novel and Clarissa s feelings of unraveling. Clarissa s daughter, Julia, comes home to help her prepare, and listens while Clarissa admits that her life feels trivial and false in comparison to her youthful happiness. When Clarissa goes to bring Richard to his party, editing reveals that Richard is the young boy from 1951. Deeply distraught, he tells Clarissa that he cannot bear to face the hours that will make up the rest of his life, then commits suicide in front of her by falling from a window. Later that night, Richard s mother, Laura Brown, arrives at Clarissa s apartment. Laura is aware that her abandonment of her family was deeply traumatic for Richard, but Laura reveals that it was a better decision for her to leave the family after the birth of her daughter than to commit suicide. She does not apologize for the hurt that she caused to her family and suggests that it s not possible to feel regret for something over which she had no choice. She acknowledges that no one will forgive her, but she offers an explanation: It was death. I chose life.

The film ends with Virginia s suicide by drowning with a voice-over in which Virginia thanks Leonard for loving her: Always the years between us. Always the years. Always the love. Always the hours.

Cast

1923Edit Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf Stephen Dillane as Leonard Woolf Miranda Richardson as Vanessa Bell George Loftus as Quentin Bell Charley Ramm as Julian Bell Sophie Wyburd as Angelica Bell Lyndsey Marshal as Lottie Hope Linda Bassett as Nelly Boxall

1951Edit Julianne Moore as Laura Brown John C. Reilly as Dan Brown Jack Rovello as Richard Richie Brown Toni Collette as Kitty Margo Martindale as Mrs. Latch

2001Edit Meryl Streep as Clarissa Vaughan Ed Harris as Richard Richie Brown Allison Janney as Sally Lester Claire Danes as Julia Vaughan Jeff Daniels as Louis Waters Eileen Atkins as Barbara Julianne Moore as Older Laura Brown

Reception

Box office

The Hours opened in New York City and Los Angeles on Christmas Day 2002 and went into limited release in the United States and Canada two days later. It grossed $1,070,856 on eleven screens in its first two weeks of release. On January 10, 2003, it expanded to 45 screens, and the following week it expanded to 402. On February 14 it went into wide release, playing in 1,003 theaters in the US and Canada. With an estimated budget of $25 million, the film eventually earned $41,675,994 in the US and Canada and $67,170,078 in foreign markets for a total worldwide box office of $108,846,072. It was the 47th highest-grossing film of 2002.

Critical response

On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval of 79% based on 195 reviews, and an average rating of 7.50/10. The site s critics consensus reads, The movie may be a downer, but it packs an emotional wallop. Some fine acting on display here. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 80 out of 100, based on 40 critics, indicating generally favorable reviews . Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of B− on an A+ to F scale.

Richard Schickel of Time criticized the film s simplistic characterization, saying, Watching The Hours, one finds oneself focusing excessively on the unfortunate prosthetic nose Kidman affects in order to look more like the novelist. And wondering why the screenwriter, David Hare, and the director, Stephen Daldry, turn Woolf, a woman of incisive mind, into a hapless ditherer. He also criticized its overt politicization: But this movie is in love with female victimization. Moore s Laura is trapped in the suburban flatlands of the 50s, while Streep s Clarissa is moored in a hopeless love for Laura s homosexual son (Ed Harris, in a truly ugly performance), an AIDS sufferer whose relentless anger is directly traceable to Mom s long-ago desertion of him. Somehow, despite the complexity of the film s structure, this all seems too simple-minded. Or should we perhaps say agenda driven? This ultimately proves insufficient to lend meaning to their lives or profundity to a grim and uninvolving film, for which Philip Glass unwittingly provides the perfect score—tuneless, oppressive, droning, painfully self-important.

Stephen Holden of The New York Times called the film deeply moving and an amazingly faithful screen adaptation and added, Although suicide eventually tempts three of the film s characters, The Hours is not an unduly morbid film. Clear eyed and austerely balanced would be a more accurate description, along with magnificently written and acted. Mr. Glass s surging minimalist score, with its air of cosmic abstraction, serves as ideal connective tissue for a film that breaks down temporal barriers. Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle observed, Director Stephen Daldry employs the wonderful things cinema can do in order to realize aspects of The Hours that Cunningham could only hint at or approximate on the page. The result is something rare, especially considering how fine the novel is, a film that s fuller and deeper than the book ... It s marvelous to watch the ways in which consistently dramatizes the original material without compromising its integrity or distorting its intent ... Cunningham s touched on notes of longing, middle-aged angst and the sense of being a small consciousness in the midst of a grand mystery. But Daldry and Hare s sounds those notes and sends audiences out reverberating with them, exalted.

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone awarded the film, which he thought sometimes stumbles on literary pretensions, three out of four stars. He praised the performances, commenting, Kidman s acting is superlative, full of passion and feeling ... Moore is wrenching in her scenes with Laura s son (Jack Rovello, an exceptional child actor). And Streep is a miracle worker, building a character in the space between words and worlds. These three unimprovable actresses make The Hours a thing of beauty.

Philip French of The Observer called it a moving, somewhat depressing film that demands and rewards attention. He thought the performances are remarkable but found the Philip Glass score to be relentless and over-amplified. Steve Persall of the St. Petersburg Times said it is the most finely crafted film of the past year that I never want to sit through again. The performances are flawless, the screenplay is intelligently crafted, and the overall mood is relentlessly bleak. It is a film to be admired, not embraced, and certainly not to be enjoyed for any reason other than its expertise. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian rated the film three out of five stars and commented, It is a daring act of extrapolation, and a real departure from most movie-making, which can handle only one universe at a time ... The performances that Daldry elicits ... are all strong: tightly managed, smoothly and dashingly juxtaposed under a plangent score ... Part of the bracing experimental impact of the film was the absence of narrative connection between the three women. Supplying one in the final reel undermines its formal daring, but certainly packs an emotional punch. It makes for an elegant and poignant chamber music of the soul.

Accolades

Soundtrack

The film s score by Philip Glass won the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. The soundtrack album was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media.

Further reading

• Taylor, C. J. (2015). The Hours - A film to enhance teaching psychology. Academic Exchange Quarterly, 19(2), 17–22.

Condition

New

Format

DVD

Age Group

Adult

Amazon ASIN

B003AXE9II

UPC / EAN

097363399025

Year

2002

ReleaseDate

2003-02-14

RuntimeMins

110

RuntimeStr

1h 50min

Awards

Won 1 Oscar, 43 wins & 126 nominations total

Directors

Stephen Daldry

Writers

Michael Cunningham, David Hare

Stars

Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore

Produced by

Michael Alden, Robert Fox, Mark Huffam, Ian MacNeil, Scott Rudin, Marieke Spencer

Music by

Philip Glass

Cinematography by

Seamus McGarvey

Film Editing by

Peter Boyle

Casting By

Patsy Pollock, Daniel Swee

Production Design by

Maria Djurkovic

Art Direction by

Nick Palmer, Mark Raggett, Judy Rhee

Set Decoration by

Philippa Hart

Costume Design by

Ann Roth

Makeup Department

Jo Allen, Sarah Astley, Caridad Cuqui Collazo, Stuart Conran, Nuala Conway, Alan D Angerio, Gretchen Davis, Paul Engelen, Richard Glass, Paul Gooch, J. Roy Helland, Chris Lyons, Conor O Sullivan, Elaine L. Offers, Peter Owen, Lisa Patnoe, Eva Polywka, Ivana Primorac, Peggy Schierholz, Robin Schoonraad, Jemma Scott-Knox-Gore, Edward St. George, Kerry Warn, Jay Cannistraci, Chris Fitzgerald, Duncan Jarman

Production Management

James Bigwood, Jo Burn, Michael Dreyer, Gary Pickering, James Rickard, Cherry Brewer

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Kenny Bates, Stephen Lee Davis, Martin Harrison, Nick Heckstall-Smith, Ben Howard, Cary Jones, Kellie JoTackett, Peggy Robinson, Jennifer Truelove, George Walker, Simon Emanuel

Art Department

Martin Asbury, Alan Bailey, Alan Briant, Alan Chesters, Leigh Chesters, Jane Clark, Ben Conable, Mike Cuddy, Mark Dane, Guido DeCurtis, Judy Ducker, Martin Duffy, Rod England, Terry Ennis, Danny Evans, Douglas Fecht, Dave Fisher, Richard Fojo, Joanna Foley, Gavin Gordon, Charles Guanci Jr., Michael Gunner, Paul Gunner, James Harris, Carol Heller, Ron Higgins, Jason Hopperton, Jason Ivall, John Jackson, Al Johnson, David Ned Kelly, Robert Kopp, Richard E. Kruder, Andrew Lassman, Erik Lundell, Emily Lutyens, Alexa Marino, Tony Marks, Daniel May, Michael Metzel, John Nyomarkay, Barbara Peterson-Malesci, Stelios Polychronakis, Judy Rhee, Stuart Sewell, Dave Thompson, Frank A. Torres, Roman Turovsky, Paul Weathered, Michael Webb, Greg Winter, Ben Wolcott, Jeff Woodbridge, Harriet Zucker, Julia Barraclough, David Packard, Celia Parker, Nicholas Scott

Sound Department

Gary Alper, Carles Berot, Ricky Butt, John Casali, Kevin Cerchiai, David Crozier, Adam Daniel, Graham Daniel, Tony Dawe, Lee Dichter, Richard Fettes, Matt Grimes, Ken Hahn, James Harris, Nina Hartstone, Robert Ireland, Andy Kennedy, Jed Loughran, Conor Mackey, Claire Mahoney, Grant Maxwell, Mario McNulty, Ray Merrin, Julian Pinn, Michael Redfern, Jacob Ribicoff, Lyle Scott-Darling, Warren Shaw, Richard Street, Marc-Jon Sullivan, Daniel Ward, John Warhurst, Warren A. Weberg, Robin Whittaker, Campbell Askew, Jimmy Boyle, Andrew Caller, Paul Carr, Paul Conway, Phillip Fuller, Peter Gleaves, Gerard Loret, Michael Miller, Stuart Morton, James David Redding III, Eric Strausser, Ruth Sullivan, Derek Trigg, Akil Wilson

Special Effects by

Stuart Brisdon, Paul Clancy, Mark Haddenham, Jim Lillis, Tony Moore, Charlie Muspratt, Andrew *Starman* Pearce, Jody Taylor, John Weller, Malcolm Wilson, Steve Knowles

Visual Effects by

Richard Briscoe, Matthew Plummer, Ciaran Crowley, Pete Hanson, Adam Howarth, Alex Ireland, Yoko Ishiguro, Jody Johnson, Andrew Lockley, John Moffatt, Paul Riddle, Matthew Shaw, Tammo van Hoorn, Sheila Wickens

Stunts

Danny Aiello III, Jay Amor, Dara Amos, Hank Amos, Chick Bernhard, Richard Bradshaw, John Copeman, John Evanko, Tim Gallin, Jery Hewitt, Jay Krueger, Bean Peel, Andreas Petrides, Gary Powell, Nick Powell, Lee Sheward, Glenn R. Wilder, Richard Bradshaw, Dara Fischetti

Camera and Electrical Department

Eli Aronoff, Jason Barfield, Monica Barronton, Peter Batten, John Bowman, Roy Branch, Julian Bucknall, Glynis Burke, Tony Burns, Jack Coffen, Clive Coote, Carlos De Carvalho, James P. Dolan, John Dolan, Steve Drellich, Martin Duffy, François Duhamel, Kevin Edland, Stanley Fernandez Jr., Toby Flesher, John Freeman, Alan Grayley, James J. Green, Phil Gries, Eugene Grobler, Paul Harris, John Higgins, Robert Hooker, Larry Huston, Gary Hutchings, Mark Hutton, John Gregory Kasper, James Knox, Paul Krumper, Adam Lee, Marvin Lee, Vince Madden, Sean Malone, Stephen Mathie, Larry McConkey, Peter McEntyre, Mike McGowan, Terry Meadows, Neil Munro, Michael Oates, Jennie Paddon, Ricky Pattenden, Steve Pattenden, Brian Pickett, John Robertson, Agnes Rodriguez, Barry Ryan, Gary Ryan, Daniel Salk, Anthony Savini, John Schwartz, Steven Search, Paul Sharp, Gary Shlifer, Philip Sindall, Anthony Burgess Steinberg, Paul Stewart, Mike Valentine, Rory Walsh, Gavin Walters, Lee Walters, Brian L. Williams, Sophie Wilson, Anthony Zibelli, Kurt Beckler, Jamie Klein, Dean Morrish, Peter Myslowski, Mark Schmidt, Martyn Welland

Casting Department

Shaheen Baig, Heather Baird, Louis Elman, Barbara Fiorentino, Michele Waldfogel

Costume and Wardrobe Department

Lynette Bernay, Valerie Fusaro, Sue Gandy, Jenny Hawkins, Nancy Kolomitz, Iris Horta Lemos, Ellen Mahlke, Michelle Matland, Suzanne Pettit, Lindsay Pugh, Susan Salzano, Mark Sutherland, Crystal Thompson, Justine Warhurst, Lucy Denny, Shelley Hazell, Tom Hornsby, Jacqueline Mulligan

Editorial Department

Stefna Borges, Stephen Boucher, Julius Gladwell, Lori Machens, Steve Maguire, Bryan McMahan, Sarah Ogletree, David Rees, Geraint Huw Reynolds, Ruth Coulson, Simon Harris, William Parnell

Location Management

Allison Dillard, Rita Duffey, Elizabeth Elwell, Sarah Lee, Sherrill Mann, Angus More Gordon, Joaquin Diego Prange, Jennifer Radzikowski, Sherrill Smith, Pat Sones, Danielle J. Baker, Jody Hummer, David M. McGuire

Music Department

Jonathan Allen, David Arch, Mark Berrow, Richard Bissill, John Bradbury, Nick Ingman, Tony Lewis, Nico Muhly, Kurt Munkacsi, Everton Nelson, Michael Riesman, Bruce White, Warren Zielinski, Owen Bartholomew, Denise Carver, Simon Changer, Paul Kegg, Dashiell Rae, Randy Spendlove

Script and Continuity Department

Angela Wharton

Transportation Department

Phil Allchin, Mike Easter, William K. Gaskins, Vince Pecora, Don Abbatiello

Additional Crew

Kweku Abdullah, Vicki Allen, Joane Baptiste, Josef Brandmaier, Debbie Brodie, Sarah Clark, Patrick Corcoran, Mel Claus Crawford, Chris Cussen, Rita Duffey, Tina Ellis, Sandra Frieze, John Gomez, Jacqui Green, Andy Hennigan, Joe Holden, Marc H. Katz, Elayne Keratsis, Lars Knudsen, Pati Lauren, Ben LeClair, Susie Lewis, Mark R. Lindsay, M.J. Magbanua, Rhys Maitland-Jones, Mack McKelvey, Victoria Morgan, Clarissa Newman, Charley Parlapanides, John Rickard, Lori M. Roberts, Lucas Stein, Imogen Stringer, Narges Takesh, Jeannie Udall, Kevin J. Walsh, Simi Wein, Virginia Whitwell, Beverly Wood, Josué D. Aguilar, Victoria Allen, Freya Archard, Joanna Bates, Nic Benns, Victoria Cervantes, Jan Cosby, Steve Dale, Melissa Marie Davis, Harold De Jesus, Stan Eutsey, Philip Harvey, Joshua C. Hersko, Robert Hollocks, Sammy Horton, Nicholas Owen Langholff, Josh Liveright, Justin Marx, Becky Maxwell, Ashlee McDonald, Catherine Middleton, Steve Morphew, Claire Peberdy, Christina Rice, Eric Ian Robinson, Will Rowbotham, Roy Samuelson, Emily Sklar, Marcel Valcarce, Daniel Villagomez

Thanks

Michael Cunningham

Genres

Drama, Romance

Companies

Paramount Pictures, Miramax, Scott Rudin Productions

Countries

USA, UK, France, Canada, Germany

Languages

English

ContentRating

PG-13

ImDbRating

7.5

ImDb Rating Votes

131920

Metacritic Rating

80

Short Description

The Hours is a 2002 American psychological drama film directed by Stephen Daldry and starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman. 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 screenplay by David Hare is based on Michael Cunningham s 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name.

The plot focuses on three women of different generations whose lives are interconnected by the 1925 novel Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. The women are Clarissa Vaughan (Streep), a New Yorker preparing an award party for her AIDS-stricken long-time friend and poet, Richard (Harris) in 2001; Laura Brown (Moore), a pregnant 1950s California housewife in an unhappy marriage, with a young son; and Virginia Woolf (Kidman) herself in 1920s England, who is struggling with depression and mental illness while trying to write her novel.

The film was theatrically released in Los Angeles and New York City on Christmas Day 2002, and was given a limited release in the United States two days later on December 27 before expanding in January 2003. Critical reaction to the film was positive, with nine Academy Award nominations for The Hours including Best Picture, and a win for Nicole Kidman for Best Actress.

Box Office Budget

$25,000,000 (estimated)

Box Office Opening Weekend USA

$338,622

Box Office Gross USA

$41,675,994

Box Office Cumulative Worldwide Gross

$108,846,072

Keywords

Depression,mental illness,mental breakdown,borderline personality disorder,nonlinear timeline

Year

2002

ReleaseDate

2003-02-14

RuntimeMins

110

RuntimeStr

1h 50min

Awards

Won 1 Oscar, 43 wins & 126 nominations total

Directors

Stephen Daldry

Writers

Michael Cunningham, David Hare

Stars

Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore

Produced by

Michael Alden, Robert Fox, Mark Huffam, Ian MacNeil, Scott Rudin, Marieke Spencer

Music by

Philip Glass

Cinematography by

Seamus McGarvey

Film Editing by

Peter Boyle

Casting By

Patsy Pollock, Daniel Swee

Production Design by

Maria Djurkovic

Art Direction by

Nick Palmer, Mark Raggett, Judy Rhee

Set Decoration by

Philippa Hart

Costume Design by

Ann Roth

Makeup Department

Jo Allen, Sarah Astley, Caridad Cuqui Collazo, Stuart Conran, Nuala Conway, Alan D Angerio, Gretchen Davis, Paul Engelen, Richard Glass, Paul Gooch, J. Roy Helland, Chris Lyons, Conor O Sullivan, Elaine L. Offers, Peter Owen, Lisa Patnoe, Eva Polywka, Ivana Primorac, Peggy Schierholz, Robin Schoonraad, Jemma Scott-Knox-Gore, Edward St. George, Kerry Warn, Jay Cannistraci, Chris Fitzgerald, Duncan Jarman

Production Management

James Bigwood, Jo Burn, Michael Dreyer, Gary Pickering, James Rickard, Cherry Brewer

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Kenny Bates, Stephen Lee Davis, Martin Harrison, Nick Heckstall-Smith, Ben Howard, Cary Jones, Kellie JoTackett, Peggy Robinson, Jennifer Truelove, George Walker, Simon Emanuel

Art Department

Martin Asbury, Alan Bailey, Alan Briant, Alan Chesters, Leigh Chesters, Jane Clark, Ben Conable, Mike Cuddy, Mark Dane, Guido DeCurtis, Judy Ducker, Martin Duffy, Rod England, Terry Ennis, Danny Evans, Douglas Fecht, Dave Fisher, Richard Fojo, Joanna Foley, Gavin Gordon, Charles Guanci Jr., Michael Gunner, Paul Gunner, James Harris, Carol Heller, Ron Higgins, Jason Hopperton, Jason Ivall, John Jackson, Al Johnson, David Ned Kelly, Robert Kopp, Richard E. Kruder, Andrew Lassman, Erik Lundell, Emily Lutyens, Alexa Marino, Tony Marks, Daniel May, Michael Metzel, John Nyomarkay, Barbara Peterson-Malesci, Stelios Polychronakis, Judy Rhee, Stuart Sewell, Dave Thompson, Frank A. Torres, Roman Turovsky, Paul Weathered, Michael Webb, Greg Winter, Ben Wolcott, Jeff Woodbridge, Harriet Zucker, Julia Barraclough, David Packard, Celia Parker, Nicholas Scott

Sound Department

Gary Alper, Carles Berot, Ricky Butt, John Casali, Kevin Cerchiai, David Crozier, Adam Daniel, Graham Daniel, Tony Dawe, Lee Dichter, Richard Fettes, Matt Grimes, Ken Hahn, James Harris, Nina Hartstone, Robert Ireland, Andy Kennedy, Jed Loughran, Conor Mackey, Claire Mahoney, Grant Maxwell, Mario McNulty, Ray Merrin, Julian Pinn, Michael Redfern, Jacob Ribicoff, Lyle Scott-Darling, Warren Shaw, Richard Street, Marc-Jon Sullivan, Daniel Ward, John Warhurst, Warren A. Weberg, Robin Whittaker, Campbell Askew, Jimmy Boyle, Andrew Caller, Paul Carr, Paul Conway, Phillip Fuller, Peter Gleaves, Gerard Loret, Michael Miller, Stuart Morton, James David Redding III, Eric Strausser, Ruth Sullivan, Derek Trigg, Akil Wilson

Special Effects by

Stuart Brisdon, Paul Clancy, Mark Haddenham, Jim Lillis, Tony Moore, Charlie Muspratt, Andrew *Starman* Pearce, Jody Taylor, John Weller, Malcolm Wilson, Steve Knowles

Visual Effects by

Richard Briscoe, Matthew Plummer, Ciaran Crowley, Pete Hanson, Adam Howarth, Alex Ireland, Yoko Ishiguro, Jody Johnson, Andrew Lockley, John Moffatt, Paul Riddle, Matthew Shaw, Tammo van Hoorn, Sheila Wickens

Stunts

Danny Aiello III, Jay Amor, Dara Amos, Hank Amos, Chick Bernhard, Richard Bradshaw, John Copeman, John Evanko, Tim Gallin, Jery Hewitt, Jay Krueger, Bean Peel, Andreas Petrides, Gary Powell, Nick Powell, Lee Sheward, Glenn R. Wilder, Richard Bradshaw, Dara Fischetti

Camera and Electrical Department

Eli Aronoff, Jason Barfield, Monica Barronton, Peter Batten, John Bowman, Roy Branch, Julian Bucknall, Glynis Burke, Tony Burns, Jack Coffen, Clive Coote, Carlos De Carvalho, James P. Dolan, John Dolan, Steve Drellich, Martin Duffy, François Duhamel, Kevin Edland, Stanley Fernandez Jr., Toby Flesher, John Freeman, Alan Grayley, James J. Green, Phil Gries, Eugene Grobler, Paul Harris, John Higgins, Robert Hooker, Larry Huston, Gary Hutchings, Mark Hutton, John Gregory Kasper, James Knox, Paul Krumper, Adam Lee, Marvin Lee, Vince Madden, Sean Malone, Stephen Mathie, Larry McConkey, Peter McEntyre, Mike McGowan, Terry Meadows, Neil Munro, Michael Oates, Jennie Paddon, Ricky Pattenden, Steve Pattenden, Brian Pickett, John Robertson, Agnes Rodriguez, Barry Ryan, Gary Ryan, Daniel Salk, Anthony Savini, John Schwartz, Steven Search, Paul Sharp, Gary Shlifer, Philip Sindall, Anthony Burgess Steinberg, Paul Stewart, Mike Valentine, Rory Walsh, Gavin Walters, Lee Walters, Brian L. Williams, Sophie Wilson, Anthony Zibelli, Kurt Beckler, Jamie Klein, Dean Morrish, Peter Myslowski, Mark Schmidt, Martyn Welland

Casting Department

Shaheen Baig, Heather Baird, Louis Elman, Barbara Fiorentino, Michele Waldfogel

Costume and Wardrobe Department

Lynette Bernay, Valerie Fusaro, Sue Gandy, Jenny Hawkins, Nancy Kolomitz, Iris Horta Lemos, Ellen Mahlke, Michelle Matland, Suzanne Pettit, Lindsay Pugh, Susan Salzano, Mark Sutherland, Crystal Thompson, Justine Warhurst, Lucy Denny, Shelley Hazell, Tom Hornsby, Jacqueline Mulligan

Editorial Department

Stefna Borges, Stephen Boucher, Julius Gladwell, Lori Machens, Steve Maguire, Bryan McMahan, Sarah Ogletree, David Rees, Geraint Huw Reynolds, Ruth Coulson, Simon Harris, William Parnell

Location Management

Allison Dillard, Rita Duffey, Elizabeth Elwell, Sarah Lee, Sherrill Mann, Angus More Gordon, Joaquin Diego Prange, Jennifer Radzikowski, Sherrill Smith, Pat Sones, Danielle J. Baker, Jody Hummer, David M. McGuire

Music Department

Jonathan Allen, David Arch, Mark Berrow, Richard Bissill, John Bradbury, Nick Ingman, Tony Lewis, Nico Muhly, Kurt Munkacsi, Everton Nelson, Michael Riesman, Bruce White, Warren Zielinski, Owen Bartholomew, Denise Carver, Simon Changer, Paul Kegg, Dashiell Rae, Randy Spendlove

Script and Continuity Department

Angela Wharton

Transportation Department

Phil Allchin, Mike Easter, William K. Gaskins, Vince Pecora, Don Abbatiello

Additional Crew

Kweku Abdullah, Vicki Allen, Joane Baptiste, Josef Brandmaier, Debbie Brodie, Sarah Clark, Patrick Corcoran, Mel Claus Crawford, Chris Cussen, Rita Duffey, Tina Ellis, Sandra Frieze, John Gomez, Jacqui Green, Andy Hennigan, Joe Holden, Marc H. Katz, Elayne Keratsis, Lars Knudsen, Pati Lauren, Ben LeClair, Susie Lewis, Mark R. Lindsay, M.J. Magbanua, Rhys Maitland-Jones, Mack McKelvey, Victoria Morgan, Clarissa Newman, Charley Parlapanides, John Rickard, Lori M. Roberts, Lucas Stein, Imogen Stringer, Narges Takesh, Jeannie Udall, Kevin J. Walsh, Simi Wein, Virginia Whitwell, Beverly Wood, Josué D. Aguilar, Victoria Allen, Freya Archard, Joanna Bates, Nic Benns, Victoria Cervantes, Jan Cosby, Steve Dale, Melissa Marie Davis, Harold De Jesus, Stan Eutsey, Philip Harvey, Joshua C. Hersko, Robert Hollocks, Sammy Horton, Nicholas Owen Langholff, Josh Liveright, Justin Marx, Becky Maxwell, Ashlee McDonald, Catherine Middleton, Steve Morphew, Claire Peberdy, Christina Rice, Eric Ian Robinson, Will Rowbotham, Roy Samuelson, Emily Sklar, Marcel Valcarce, Daniel Villagomez

Thanks

Michael Cunningham

Genres

Drama, Romance

Companies

Paramount Pictures, Miramax, Scott Rudin Productions

Countries

USA, UK, France, Canada, Germany

Languages

English

ContentRating

PG-13

ImDbRating

7.5

ImDb Rating Votes

131920

Metacritic Rating

80

Short Description

The Hours is a 2002 American psychological drama film directed by Stephen Daldry and starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman. 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 screenplay by David Hare is based on Michael Cunningham s 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name.

The plot focuses on three women of different generations whose lives are interconnected by the 1925 novel Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. The women are Clarissa Vaughan (Streep), a New Yorker preparing an award party for her AIDS-stricken long-time friend and poet, Richard (Harris) in 2001; Laura Brown (Moore), a pregnant 1950s California housewife in an unhappy marriage, with a young son; and Virginia Woolf (Kidman) herself in 1920s England, who is struggling with depression and mental illness while trying to write her novel.

The film was theatrically released in Los Angeles and New York City on Christmas Day 2002, and was given a limited release in the United States two days later on December 27 before expanding in January 2003. Critical reaction to the film was positive, with nine Academy Award nominations for The Hours including Best Picture, and a win for Nicole Kidman for Best Actress.

Box Office Budget

$25,000,000 (estimated)

Box Office Opening Weekend USA

$338,622

Box Office Gross USA

$41,675,994

Box Office Cumulative Worldwide Gross

$108,846,072

Keywords

Depression,mental illness,mental breakdown,borderline personality disorder,nonlinear timeline