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| Directed by | Stephen Daldry |
| Screenplay by | David Hare |
| Based on | The Hours 1998 novel by Michael Cunningham |
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| Cinematography | Seamus McGarvey |
| Edited by | Peter Boyle |
| Music by | Philip Glass |
Production companies | Miramax Films Scott Rudin Productions |
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Running time | 114 minutes[1] |
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| Language | English |
| Budget | $25 million |
| Box office | $108.8 million |
The Hours is a 2002 psychological drama film directed by Stephen Daldry and starring Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep. 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 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. It received generally favorable reviews with praise towards the lead performances of Kidman, Moore and Streep, with nine Academy Award nominations for The Hours including Best Picture, and a win for Nicole Kidman for Best Actress. The film and novel were adapted into an opera with the same name in 2022.
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- ^ "THE HOURS (12A)". British Board of Film Classification. January 10, 2003. Archived from the original on November 29, 2014. Retrieved November 15, 2014.
- ^ "The Hours". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on August 11, 2016. Retrieved October 10, 2022.