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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 6654
Released: June 24, 2003 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
THE HOURS tells the story of three very different individuals who share the feeling that they have been living their lives for someone else. Virginia Woolf (Kidman) lives in a suburb of London in the 1920’s as she struggles to begin writing her first great novel, Mrs. Dalloway, while also attempting to overcome the mental illness that threatens to engulf her. Laura Brown (Moore), a young wife and mother in post-World War II Los Angeles, is just starting to read Mrs. Dalloway, and is so deeply affected by it that she begins to question the life she has chosen for herself. Then, in contemporary New York City, Clarissa Vaughan (Streep) is a modern-day mirror image of Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway as she plans what may be the final party for her friend and former lover, Richard (Harris), who is dying of AIDS.
Description of The Hours:
Delicate and hypnotic, The Hours interweaves three stories with remarkable skill: in the 1920s Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) grapples with her inner demons and slowly works on her novel Mrs. Dalloway; in 1949 housewife Laura Brown (Julianne Moore) feels her own destructive impulses; and in 1999 book editor Clarissa Vaughn (Meryl Streep)--much like the title character of Woolf's novel--prepares to throw a party, in honor of her dearest friend, a seriously ill poet (Ed Harris). Small details reverberate from story to story as a powerhouse cast (including Allison Janney, Toni Collette, Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels, John C. Reilly, Stephen Dillane, and Miranda Richardson) gives subtle and beautifully modulated performances. In the hands of director Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot), The Hours is almost more a piece of music than a story, and like music, it may move you in unexpected ways. --Bret Fetzer
The Hours Reviews:
Excellent view 
2009-11-19 - This is a great movie worth watching. If you like Virignia Woolf, watch this. Its really quite good.
Great Acting/complicated plot
2009-11-12 - Having seen this a number of years ago when I was unable to focus on the movie (because a friend who was with me talked and asked many questions), this has been an interesting look into a classic story of mental illness. This was actually the first time I really watched the movie.
The cast is awesome, but on top of that they individually outdid themselves in their role. It is more than worth viewing, but be prepared that it is depressing.
Too Darn Depressing for Me 
2009-10-18 - The acting was too well done. All three leading ladies range from somewhat disatisfied to suicidally depressed and they were convincing. But here's the thing. Watching and listening to people who are depressed is DEPRESSING. And watching this movie was depressing. I watched for about an hour thinking it might pick up, that perhaps a real ray of sunshine would appear. But... I'm giving up. I will not put myself through watching the rest of it.
Having gone and read other reviews now, even some by people who liked the film, I don't think I missing anything. Whew.... I need to go watch Miracle or Rudy or Remember the Titans, SOMETHING inspirational to shake off this one.
Good movie - liked the way it was done. 
2009-10-06 - This movie is so different. It is such a deep story line, where several lives tie in and different plots going on. I like the depth of it, and the way it was narrated some, and the characters are all good. It is a sad one and it makes you think about alot of things... great acting. You have to pay attention in this.
weird 
2009-08-11 - I like Meryl Streep's sunny character who is always busy planning parties & trying to make everybody's life better.She has a loving relationship with her partner ,Sally (played by the always wonderful Alison Janney) & her daughter,AJulia(claire daines). That was amazing how Meryl separated the egg yolks with just her fingers.
Virginia Woolf & Richard were difficult but interesting characters. Both are brilliant,albiet tortured geniuses that were irreversibly hurt by adults that they trusted.
It made me sad that the two of them had such a low opinion of themselves and felt they were ruining everyone around them.When in reality,so many people loved them ,warts and all.
What I couldn't get my head around was Laura's character. There is no explanation about anything this woman does. It just seems like she is in a hurry to get nowhere and doesn't care who she hurts in the process.I mean,at least give me the reason she wants to leave her husband.
Not trying to be judgemental but Laura made me sick.
