The Hours (Special Collector’s Edition Movie DVD)

Director: Stephen Daldry
Artists: Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Claire Danes, John C. Reilly, Stephen Dillane, Jeff Daniels, Allison Janney, Miranda Richardson, Toni Collette, Eileen Atkins
Screenplay: David Hare, from the novel by Michael Cunningham
Video Format: Widescreen NTSC
Sound Format: Dolby
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Dubbed: French
Region: All Regions
Number of Discs: 1
Studio: Paramount, Universal Studios
DVD Release Date: October 10, 2017 (Originally released 2002)
Run Time: 114 minutes

The Hours is a 2002 American psychological drama film directed by Stephen Daldry and starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman. The screenplay by David Hare is based on Michael Cunningham’s 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name.

The plot focuses on three women of different generations whose lives are interconnected by the 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf: Clarissa Vaughan (Streep), a New Yorker preparing an award party for her AIDS-stricken long-time friend and poet (Harris) in 2001; Laura Brown (Moore), a pregnant 1950s California housewife in an unhappy marriage, with a young son; and Virginia Woolf (Kidman) herself in 1920s England, who is struggling with depression and mental illness while trying to write her novel.

Cunningham’s novel has been adapted into an opera, music by Kevin Puts and libretto by Greg Pierce, premiering at the Philadelphia Orchestra in 2022, followed by its staged premiere at the Metropolitan Opera later that year.

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