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The Hours

2002

Stephen Daldry

Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris ...

7.2

36,634

Drama In 1951, Laura Brown, a pregnant housewife, is planning a party for her husband, but she can't stop reading the novel 'Mrs. Dalloway'. Clarissa Vaughn, a modern woman living in present times is throwing a party for her friend Richard, a famous author dying of AIDS. These two stories are simultaneously linked to the work and life of Virginia Woolf, who's writing the novel mentioned before.

	Media	Author	Review
		Stephen Holden The New York Times	"Deeply moving (...) 'The Hours' is not an unduly morbid film. Clear eyed and austerely balanced would be a more accurate description, along with magnificently written and acted"
		Todd McCarthy Variety	"Considerable intelligence and strategic finesse have been brought to bear on this handsomely mounted adaptation"
		Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"[It] reduces Woolf and her art to a set of feminist stances and a few plot points, without reference to style or form"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Its constituent, handsomely mounted panels are inhabited by three earnest, meticulous performances (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"A fascinating and ultimately successful stunt in its cross-cutting among the decades (...) David Hare lets the themes (...) ring clearly in all three stories"
		Keith Phipps AV Club	"However much it apes its source material, 'The Hours' always seems to strain for effect, and to live for the applause that follows."
		William Thomas Empire	"Wonderfully acted, elegantly written and tightly directed (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Ed Gonzalez Slant	"The women of 'The Hours' become little more than sudsy abstractions of cross-generational female repression (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"
		Sloan Freer Radio Times	"It's a sophisticated and deeply poetic triumph that marks out Daldry as a talent to watch (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

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