The Hours (movie)
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The Hours is an Academy Award winning film about three women of different generations and times whose lives are interconnected by the novel Mrs. Dalloway, written by Virginia Woolf, all taking place within the span of one day. Nicole Kidman portrays renowned British author Woolf, Julianne Moore plays a troubled 1950s housewife who is reading the novel Mrs. Dalloway, and Meryl Streep plays a book editor in the 2000s who is arranging a party for a friend who is to receive an award for his collection of poems. He is also dying from AIDS. Miranda Richardson (as Woolf's older sister Vanessa Bell), Toni Collette, Claire Danes, Ed Harris, Allison Janney and John C. Reilly also star.
The film's sceenplay 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. Film was released December 18, 2002.
One of the most acclaimed films of 2002, The Hours received a number of awards and nominations. Winning the 2003 Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture - Drama and Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama (for Kidman). The film was largely shut out of its 9 Academy Award nominations. The film did, however, launch Kidman forward as one of Hollywood's most able dramatic actresses. Kidman won both the Golden Globe and the Oscar for Best Actress. Kidman's portrayal in the film, in which she wore a prosthetic nose, highlighted the Hollywood rumor that beautiful actresses can only receive the best dramatic roles once they diminish their physical attributes in a role. Other actresses that won the Best Actress Academy Award for similar de-glamorized roles are Hillary Swank (twice), Halle Berry, and Charlize Theron for Boys Don't Cry and Million Dollar Baby, Monster's Ball, and Monster respectively.
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Quotes
- You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
- A woman's whole life, in a single day, just one day, and in that day, her whole life.
- What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear.
- I am ungrateful? You call ME ungrateful? My life has been stolen from me. I'm living in a town I have no wish to live in... I'm living a life I have no wish to live... How did this happen?
- If I were thinking clearly, Leonard, I would tell you that I wrestle alone in the dark, in the deep dark, and that 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 extinction. Leonard, I live with it too.
- This is my right; it is the right of every human being. I choose not the suffocating anesthetic of the suburbs, but the violent jolt of the Capital, that is my choice. The meanest patient, yes, even the very lowest is allowed some say in the matter of her own prescription. Thereby she defines her humanity. I wish, for your sake, Leonard, I could be happy in this quietness. [pause] But if it is a choice between Richmond and death, I choose death.
Brief Cast
- Nicole Kidman ... as Virginia Woolf
- Julianne Moore ... as Laura Brown
- Meryl Streep ... as Clarissa Vaughn
- Stephen Dillane ... as Leonard Woolf
- Miranda Richardson ... as Vanessa Bell
- John C. Reilly ... as Dan Brown
- Toni Collette ... as Kitty Barlowe
Plot Summary
The story of how the novel Mrs. Dalloway affects three generations of women (Virginia Woolf writes the story, Laura Brown reads it, and Clarissa Vaughn lives it), all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives.
Tagline: The time to hide is over. The time to regret is gone. The time to live is now.
Awards Won
- 2002 Academy Award for Best Actress - Nicole Kidman
- 2003 Amanda Award (Norway) - Best Foreign Feature Film - Stephen Daldry
- 2003 American Cinema Editors Eddie Award - Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic - Peter Boyle
- 2003 Art Directors Guild - Excellence in Production Design Award - Feature Film - Contemporary Films - Maria Djurkovic
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Award Nominations
- 2002 Academy Award for Best Costume Design - Ann Roth
- 2002 Academy Award for Directing - Stephen Daldry
- 2002 Academy Award for Film Editing - Peter Boyle
- 2002 Academy Award for Original Music Score - Philip Glass
- 2002 Academy Award for Best Picture
- 2002 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor - Ed Harris
- 2002 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - Julianne Moore
- 2002 Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay - David Hare from the novel by Michael Cunningham
External links
- Official site (http://www.thehoursmovie.com/)
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