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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.
New
DVD
Adult
B003AXE9II
097363399025
2002
2003-02-14
110
1h 50min
Won 1 Oscar, 43 wins & 126 nominations total
Stephen Daldry
Michael Cunningham, David Hare
Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore
Michael Alden, Robert Fox, Mark Huffam, Ian MacNeil, Scott Rudin, Marieke Spencer
Philip Glass
Seamus McGarvey
Peter Boyle
Patsy Pollock, Daniel Swee
Maria Djurkovic
Nick Palmer, Mark Raggett, Judy Rhee
Philippa Hart
Ann Roth
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
James Bigwood, Jo Burn, Michael Dreyer, Gary Pickering, James Rickard, Cherry Brewer
Kenny Bates, Stephen Lee Davis, Martin Harrison, Nick Heckstall-Smith, Ben Howard, Cary Jones, Kellie JoTackett, Peggy Robinson, Jennifer Truelove, George Walker, Simon Emanuel
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
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
Stuart Brisdon, Paul Clancy, Mark Haddenham, Jim Lillis, Tony Moore, Charlie Muspratt, Andrew *Starman* Pearce, Jody Taylor, John Weller, Malcolm Wilson, Steve Knowles
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
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
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
Shaheen Baig, Heather Baird, Louis Elman, Barbara Fiorentino, Michele Waldfogel
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
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
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
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
Angela Wharton
Phil Allchin, Mike Easter, William K. Gaskins, Vince Pecora, Don Abbatiello
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
Michael Cunningham
Drama, Romance
Paramount Pictures, Miramax, Scott Rudin Productions
USA, UK, France, Canada, Germany
English
PG-13
7.5
131920
80
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.
$25,000,000 (estimated)
$338,622
$41,675,994
$108,846,072
Depression,mental illness,mental breakdown,borderline personality disorder,nonlinear timeline
2002
2003-02-14
110
1h 50min
Won 1 Oscar, 43 wins & 126 nominations total
Stephen Daldry
Michael Cunningham, David Hare
Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore
Michael Alden, Robert Fox, Mark Huffam, Ian MacNeil, Scott Rudin, Marieke Spencer
Philip Glass
Seamus McGarvey
Peter Boyle
Patsy Pollock, Daniel Swee
Maria Djurkovic
Nick Palmer, Mark Raggett, Judy Rhee
Philippa Hart
Ann Roth
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
James Bigwood, Jo Burn, Michael Dreyer, Gary Pickering, James Rickard, Cherry Brewer
Kenny Bates, Stephen Lee Davis, Martin Harrison, Nick Heckstall-Smith, Ben Howard, Cary Jones, Kellie JoTackett, Peggy Robinson, Jennifer Truelove, George Walker, Simon Emanuel
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
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
Stuart Brisdon, Paul Clancy, Mark Haddenham, Jim Lillis, Tony Moore, Charlie Muspratt, Andrew *Starman* Pearce, Jody Taylor, John Weller, Malcolm Wilson, Steve Knowles
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
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
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
Shaheen Baig, Heather Baird, Louis Elman, Barbara Fiorentino, Michele Waldfogel
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
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
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
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
Angela Wharton
Phil Allchin, Mike Easter, William K. Gaskins, Vince Pecora, Don Abbatiello
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
Michael Cunningham
Drama, Romance
Paramount Pictures, Miramax, Scott Rudin Productions
USA, UK, France, Canada, Germany
English
PG-13
7.5
131920
80
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.
$25,000,000 (estimated)
$338,622
$41,675,994
$108,846,072
Depression,mental illness,mental breakdown,borderline personality disorder,nonlinear timeline