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The Hours (2002)

Coming Out at 27 December 2002 in theaters.

Drama, Romance

The Hours is 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 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same title.

The plot focuses on three women of different generations whose lives are interconnected by the 1925 novel Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. These 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.

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.

Director: Stephen Daldry

Writers: Michael Cunningham (novel), David Hare

Stars: Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Stephen Dillane, Miranda Richardson, George Loftus, Charley Ramm

Cast:

Nicole KidmanVirginia Woolf
Julianne MooreLaura Brown
Meryl StreepClarissa Vaughan
Stephen DillaneLeonard Woolf
Miranda RichardsonVanessa Bell
George LoftusQuentin Bell
Charley RammJulian Bell
Sophie WyburdAngelica Bell
Lyndsey MarshalLottie Hope
Linda BassettNelly Boxall
Christian CoulsonRalph Partridge
Michael CulkinDoctor
John C. ReillyDan Brown
Jack RovelloRichie
Toni ColletteKitty
Margo MartindaleMrs. Latch
Colin StintonHotel Clerk
Ed HarrisRichard Brown
Allison JanneySally Lester
Claire DanesJulia Vaughan
Jeff DanielsLouis Waters
Eileen AtkinsBarbara in the Flower Shop
Carmen De LavalladeClarissa’s Neighbor
Daniel BrocklebankRodney
Aaron BoyumYoung Richard Brown
Michael CunninghamMan outside shop
Johnathan HodgesMover
Kate SuperYoung Clarissa Vaughan

Sources: imdb & wikipedia

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