The Hours

3.80
    The Hours
    2002

    Synopsis

    "The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.

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    Cast

    • Julianne MooreLaura Brown
    • Nicole KidmanVirginia Woolf
    • Meryl StreepClarissa Vaughan
    • Stephen DillaneLeonard Woolf
    • Miranda RichardsonVanessa Bell
    • George LoftusQuentin Bell
    • Charley RammJulian Bell
    • Sophie WyburdAngelica Bell
    • Lyndsey MarshalLottie Hope
    • Linda BassettNelly Boxall

    Recommendations

    • 100

      The New York Times

      Ms. Kidman, in a performance of astounding bravery, evokes the savage inner war waged by a brilliant mind against a system of faulty wiring that transmits a searing, crazy static into her brain.
    • 100

      Los Angeles Times

      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.
    • 100

      San Francisco Chronicle

      The result is something rare, especially considering how fine the novel is, a film that's fuller and deeper than the book.
    • 100

      The New Yorker

      The twin themes of The Hours are the variety of human bonds, especially the bond of love, and the gift that the dying make to the living. The miracle is that such sombre notions fit together as surely and lightly as the dancers in a Balanchine ballet. [23 & 30 December 2002, p. 166]
    • 90

      Village Voice

      It's an astonishing Kidman who contributes the film's -- and maybe the year's -- most inspired turn.
    • 90

      Wall Street Journal

      The links and resonances remain largely abstract -- to understand them isn't necessarily to be moved by them -- while the individual dramas of those three lives are often stirring, and the three starring performances are unforgettable.
    • 90

      Variety

      Considerable intelligence and strategic finesse have been brought to bear on this handsomely mounted adaptation of Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which was hardly a natural for the bigscreen.
    • 83

      Seattle Post-Intelligencer

      Kidman's Virginia Woolf is already controversial -- Yet there's something fierce, noble and deeply affecting in her work that mirrors Woolf's prose style, and her turbulent presence is the soul of the movie.

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