Rent The Hours (2002)
3.6 of 5 from 198 ratings
1h 50min
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- Synopsis:
- A trio of the screen's best actresses - Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore - star as three women from different eras who are linked by their common yearnings and fears. Virginia Woolf (Kidman), in a suburb of London in the early 1920s, is battling insanity as she begins to write her first great novel, Mrs. Dalloway. A wife and a mother in post-World War II Los Angeles, Laura Brown (Moore) is reading Mrs. Dalloway and finding it so revelatory that she begins to consider making a devastating change in her life. Clarissa Vaughan (Streep), a present-day version of Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, lives in New York City and is in love with a friend who is dying of AIDS.
- Actors:
- Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Ed Harris, Toni Collette, Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels, Stephen Dillane, Allison Janney, John C. Reilly, Miranda Richardson, Eileen Atkins, Margo Martindale, Linda Bassett, George Loftus, Charley Ramm, Sophie Wyburd, Lyndsey Marshal, Christian Coulson, Michael Culkin
- Directors:
- Stephen Daldry
- Producers:
- Robert Fox, Scott Rudin
- Writers:
- Michael Cunningham, David Hare
- Others:
- Philip Glass, Jo Allen, Scott Rudin, Robert Fox, Ivana Primorac, Ann Roth, Conor O'Sullivan, Ed Harris, Peter Boyle
- Studio:
- Miramax
- Genres:
- Drama, Lesbian & Gay, Romance
- Collections:
- 2004, A Brief History of Lesbian Cinema, A History of Gay Cinema: According to Hollywood, Acting Up: British Actresses at the Oscars, All the Twos: 1972-2012, Award Winners, BAFTA Nominations Competition 2024, BAFTA Nominations Competition 2025, CinemaParadiso.co.uk Through Time, Drama Films & TV, Films & TV by topic, Getting to Know..., Getting to Know: Emma Thompson, Getting to Know: Nicole Kidman, inema Paradiso's 2023 Centenary Club: Part 2, Memory Lane: Films Set in 1920s, Oscar Nominations Competition 2023, Oscar Nominations Competition 2024, A Brief History of Film..., The Instant Expert's Guide, The Instant Expert's Guide to Todd Haynes
- Awards:
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- Not released
- Run Time:
- 110 minutes
- Languages:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
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Reviews (3) of The Hours
Behind Closed Doors, Nothing Changes - The Hours review by griggs
The Hours is a beautifully acted, emotionally weighty film that just about earns its stripes, even if it’s a bit too neat for its own good. The anthology structure lets Daldry peel back the shiny veneer of three different decades, showing how society politely ignores its messier truths. Each woman—writer, housewife, professor—appears to have it all, yet none can honestly speak their mind. It’s striking how little progress is made, even as the world modernises. Most unsettling of all? Julianne Moore getting mansplained by a pre-schooler. It's not perfect, but there’s quiet power here. Proudly grown-up, it feels like the kind of film we don’t get anymore—pre-streamers dictating what we watch through their algorithms.
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Fantastic - The Hours review by CP Customer
Really enjoyed this film. The sound track is also amazing. Have added it to our list so we can watch it again.
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Portrait of egotism, therefore a waste of time - The Hours review by CH
The performances were wonderful. However, Mrs Dalloway is a vastly overrated novel by a vastly overrated writer and this film showed how irrelevant it is to any intelligent and humane account of a person's life. What we witness here is the musing of a self-obsessed and weak-minded socialite who thought she had a Great Mind because she was well-off and used to flattery. The final sentences about looking life in the face sound profound but are meaningless and trivial, like Virginia Woolf herself.
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