The Hours
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- Synopsis
- Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the film interweaves the stories of three women in different eras. In 1923, the author Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman), depressed and suicidal, is writing the novel 'Mrs. Dalloway....
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- Starring
- Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Toni Collette
- Director(s)
- Stephen Daldry
- Distributor(s)
- Paramount
- MPAA Rating
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 114 min.
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San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalleAdd Critic to Favorites
The result is something rare, especially considering how fine the novel is, a film that's fuller and deeper than the book.Read the full review
Los Angeles Times | Kenneth TuranAdd Critic to Favorites
A splendid film. It uses all the resources of cinema -- masterful writing, superb acting, directorial intelligence, an enveloping score, top-of-the-line production design, costumes, cinematography and editing -- to make a film whose cumulative emotional power takes viewers by surprise, capturing us unawares in its ability to move us as deeply as it does.Read the full review
Washington Post | Desson ThomsonAdd Critic to Favorites
With its deft intercutting of place and time, the film creates a powerful sense of mysticism and fate.Read the full review