The Hours (film)

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The Hours
Directed by Stephen Daldry
Produced by Mark Huffam
Written by Michael Cunningham (novel),
David Hare (screenplay)
Starring Nicole Kidman
Julianne Moore
Meryl Streep
Ed Harris
John C. Reilly
Distributed by Paramount Pictures (US)
Miramax Films (worldwide)
Release date(s) December 27, 2002
Running time 114 min
Language English
Budget $25,000,000 (estimated)
IMDb profile

The Hours is a 2002 Academy Award winning film and Best Picture nominee about three women of different generations and times whose lives are interconnected by Virginia Woolf's novel, Mrs. Dalloway. All the action takes place within the span of one day. Nicole Kidman portrays renowned British author Woolf (1923), Julianne Moore plays a troubled housewife in 1951 who is reading the novel Mrs. Dalloway, and Meryl Streep plays a lesbian book editor in 2001 who is coping with a friend dying from AIDS. Miranda Richardson plays Vanessa Bell. Toni Collette, Claire Danes, Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Jeff Daniels and John C. Reilly also star.

The film's screenplay was written by David Hare, based on the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award-winning 1998 novel, The Hours by Michael Cunningham. The film was directed by Stephen Daldry, with a soundtrack by Philip Glass.

One of the most acclaimed films of 2002, The Hours received a slew of awards and nominations. The movie won the 2003 Golden Globe Best Dramatic Film and received nine Academy Award nominations. Kidman won both the Best Dramatic Actress Golden Globe and the Oscar for Best Actress for her role in the film.

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[edit] Cast & crew

[edit] Reception

[edit] Box Office

The Hours received a limited release in both Canada and the USA on December 27, 2002 with a wider release on February 14, 2003 to capitalise on it's Oscar nominations succes, and it's last international release was in Kuwait on November 18, 2003.With an estimated budget of $25,0000,000 The Hours was a box office success with a total gross of $41,675,994 in the U.S.A. and Canada and $67,170,078 overseas, making a total of $108,846,072 worldwide, more than four times it's budget. It was the 56th highest grossing movie released in 2002.

[edit] Reviews

The Hours was well recieved by critics and has an 80% "fresh" rating on the prominent critics reviews site Rotten Tomatoes.

The main praise for The Hours came in the form of it's acting, specifically Nicole Kidman, who with a prosthetic nose was barely recognisable in her role as Virginia Woolf. Stephen Hunter of The New York Times wrote "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". Indeed Nicole went on to win both the Golden Globe for Best Dramatic Actress and Oscar for Best Actress and in both ceremonies she was nominated alongside co-star Julianne Moore for Far From Heaven, while Meryl Streep, and Ed Harris received Golden Globe nominations (Streep in the same category as Kidman), and Julianne Moore and Ed Harris received Oscar nominations in the supporting actress and actor category.

[edit] Music

[edit] Awards and nominations

Academy Awards record
1. Best Actress
(Nicole Kidman)
Golden Globe Awards record
1. Best Picture - Drama
2. Best Actress - Drama
(Nicole Kidman)
BAFTA Awards record
1. Best Actress
(Nicole Kidman)
2. Best Film Music

Academy Awards:

  • Nominated: Best Picture
  • Win: Best Actress - Nicole Kidman
  • Nominated: Best Supporting Actor - Ed Harris
  • Nominated: Best Supporting Actress - Julianne Moore
  • Nominated: Best Director - Stephen Daldry
  • Nominated: Best Adapted Screenplay - David Hare
  • Nominated: Best Costume Design
  • Nominated: Best Editing
  • Nominated: Best Score

Art Directors Guild:

  • Nominated: Excellence in Production Design Award (Contemporary Films)

Berlin International Film Festival:

Boston Society of Film Critics:

British Academy Awards:

  • Win: Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music - Philip Glass
  • Win: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Nicole Kidman
  • Nominated: Best Film
  • Nominated: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Meryl Streep
  • Nominated: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role - Julianne Moore
  • Nominated: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role - Ed Harris
  • Nominated: David Lean Award for Direction - Stephen Daldry
  • Nominated: Best Screenplay (Adapted) - David Hare
  • Nominated: Best Make Up/Hair
  • Nominated: Best Editing
  • Nominated: Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film

Broadcast Film Critics Association:

  • Nominated: Best Picture
  • Nominated: Best Actress - Nicole Kidman
  • Nominated: Best Acting Ensemble
  • Nominated: Best Composer - Philip Glass

Casting Society of America:

  • Win: Best Casting for Feature Film, Drama - Daniel Swee

Director's Guild of America:

GLAAD Media Awards:

  • Win: Outstanding Film - Wide Release

Golden Globe Awards:

Grammy Awards:

  • Nominated: Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media - Philip Glass

Las Vegas Film Critics Society:

Los Angeles Film Critics Association:

National Board of Review:

  • Win: Best Picture

Prestige Academy Awards:

  • Win: Best Film
  • Win: Best Actress - Nicole Kidman
  • Win: Best Supporting Actress - Julianne Moore
  • Win: Best Supporting Actor - Ed Harris
  • Win: Best Actress in a Limited Role - Miranda Richardson
  • Win: Best Adapted Screenplay - David Hare
  • Win: Best Original Score - Philip Glass
  • Win: Best Art Direction/Set Decoration
  • Win: Best Editing - Peter Boyle
  • Nominated: Best Actress - Meryl Streep
  • Nominated: Best Director - Stephen Daldry
  • Nominated: Best Ensemble Cast Performance
  • Nominated: Best Cinematography
  • Nominated: Best Costume Design
  • Nominated: Best Juvenile Performance - Jack Rovello
  • Nominated: Best Make Up

Screen Actors Guild:

  • Nominated: Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role - Nicole Kidman
  • Nominated: Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role - Ed Harris
  • Nominated: Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role - Julianne Moore
  • Nominated: Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture

Southeastern Film Critics Association:

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  • "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." (Virginia Woolf discovering the first line to her novel Mrs. Dalloway in 1923; Laura Brown moments later onscreen reads the first line of Mrs. Dalloway, in the early 1950s).
  • "Sally, I think I'll buy the flowers myself." (Clarissa Vaughan to her partner, Sally Lester (onscreen), moments after Laura Brown reads the first line of Mrs. Dalloway)
  • "A woman's whole life in a single day. Just one day. And in that day her whole life."
  • "Oh, Mrs. Dalloway... Always giving parties to cover the silence".
  • "My life has been stolen from me. I am living in a town I have no wish to live in. I am living a life I have no wish to live. How did this happen?"
  • "If I were thinking clearly? If I were thinking clearly, Leonard, I would tell you that I wrestle alone in the dark, in the deep dark, and only I can know, only I can understand my own condition. You live with the threat, you tell me. You live with the threat of my own extinction. Leonard, I live with it too.
  • I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been" (Virginia Woolf to Leonard Woolf and later Richard to Clarissa).
  • "'I remember one morning, getting up at dawn. There was such a sense of possibility. And I remember thinking to myself, "This is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course, there'll always be more". It never occurred to me. It wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then'".
  • "You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard".
  • "If it is a choice between Richmond and death, I choose death."
  • "What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear".
  • "Dear Leonard, to look life in the face, always to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last, to know it, to love it, for what it is and then to put it away. Leonard, always the years between us, always the years, always the love. Always the hours."

[edit] Trivia

  • All three leading ladies (Kidman, Moore, and Streep) kiss another woman at some point during the film.
  • The Hours author Michael Cunningham makes a cameo appearance as the man walking toward Clarissa (Meryl Streep) before she enters the flower shop.
  • Kidman had to wear a prosthetic (fake) nose during the film.

[edit] Pictures

Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf

Julianne Moore as Laura Brown

Ed Harris as Richard Brown

[edit] See also

[edit] Footnotes

    [edit] External links

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    Films starring Meryl Streep

    Julia (1977) • The Deer Hunter (1978) • Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) • Manhattan (1979) • The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) • Sophie's Choice (1982) • Silkwood (1983) • Falling in Love (1984) • Out of Africa (1985) • Plenty (1985) • Heartburn (1986) • Ironweed (1987) • A Cry in the Dark (1988) • She-Devil (1989) • Death Becomes Her (1992) • Postcards from the Edge (1993) • The Bridges of Madison County (1995) • Marvin's Room (1996) • Music of the Heart (1999) • The Hours (2002) • Adaptation. (2002) • The Manchurian Candidate (2004) • Prime (2005) • A Prairie Home Companion (2006) • The Devil Wears Prada (2006)


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    2003    		 Succeeded by
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