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Plot:
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 M...( read more 
); 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
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MCT:November 14, 2008A must see: because of the story, because of how it's been made in film, because of the great cast...
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MCT:November 11, 2008Very well executed, with three topnotch actresses taking on the lead roles, what more could you ask for? Somehow the plot is very hard to perceive, I look at it like some kind of a totally random hullabaloo.
Julianne Moore is amazing, beating Nicole Kidman by a nose. Meryl Streep is kinda overrated, her performance bored me out of my skull, much to my disappointment.
And Philip Glass' score is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. Probably the most beautiful composition that I've ever heard in any movie. -
MCT:November 2, 2008
'Nel tuo libro, qualcuno deve morire, perchè?'
'La morte di qualcuno fa apprezzare la vita. E' il contrasto.' -
MCT:October 20, 2008I still don't get why she won the Oscar. It was a typical Nicole Kidman performance. The nose was a crutch. This was Julianne Moore's film.
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MCT:September 24, 2008The plot for the film adaptation of The Hours stays remarkably true to the original novel. The main premises of the story can be taken from one of its lines uttered by Virginia Woolf, that of "a woman's whole life in a single day -- just one day -- and in that day, her whole life." This idea, also in Cunningham's novel, is taken from Virginia Woolf's real novel, Mrs. Dalloway. In that story Woolf imagined a woman whom the reader follows through a single day as she too makes arrangements for a party later that night.
The three distinct storylines are fragmented and edited to alternate repeatedly throughout the film's showing. In adapting it, the screenwriter David Hare managed to shape a thriller out of the novel's plot, leaving the film's audience to piece together the bonds that tie the story's three female protagonists.
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gaerniakposted 256 days ago -
You know what--everyone is entitled to their own opinions about movies on this site, so don't put people down for it!!
posted 406 days ago -
verginia woolf, this writer how released the woman to the world and tell them about the creature who live inside her, a wonderful story deserve to read and watch, especially by you ms. woman
posted 418 days ago -
this movie was great justjessica i bet you're into shit movies.
posted 687 days ago -
The Hours is classic Film that was geared towards mature audiences who actually have the capacity to open their minds to deep philosophical and psychological themes and tones
posted 725 days ago -
Well "justjessica", we can see that u are very fuckin shallow.... but it's ok... this movie was made for people with a brain!
posted 726 days ago -
The hours is a very rich history of love, literature, beauty, melancholy....
The music is beautiful: Philip glass
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