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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 period-drama film directed by Stephen Daldry, from a screenplay by David Hare based on Michael Cunningham's 1999 novel. It stars Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep as three women whose lives that are connected by Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel Mrs Dalloway. In 2001 New York, Clarissa Vaughan (Streep), prepares an award party for her AIDS-stricken friend and poet, Richard. In 1951 California, Laura Brown (Moore) is a pregnant housewife in an unhappy marriage. In 1920s England, Virginia Woolf (Kidman) battles with depression while writing Mrs Dalloway. 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 Hours premiered in Los Angeles and New York City on Christmas Day 2002 and was given a limited release in the United States two days later, before expanding in January 2003. A commercial success, it grossed $108 million on a $25 million production budget, and received generally favorable reviews with praise towards the performances of the lead trio. At the 75th Academy Awards, it received nine nominations, including Best Picture, with Kidman winning Best Actress. The film and novel were adapted into an opera 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.