Lost we become in story telling that emphasizes cuts and coincidences, leaving serious characterization gaps.
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10/14/04
The Hours (2002)
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Reviews Counted:185
Fresh:149
Rotten:36
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: The movie may be a downer, but it packs an emotional wallop. Some fine acting on display here.
Runtime: 1 hr 56 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Based on the Pulitzer-prize winning novel by Michael Cunningham, THE HOURS employs Virginia Woolf's classic novel and central character, MRS. DALLOWAY, as its foundation and inspiration. Spanning... [More]
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Toni Collette
Director: Stephen Daldry
Reviews for The Hours
A feminist diatribe and it's true to its core as it shows men as marginalized.
10/07/04
A puzzling and forbidding strangeness.
08/07/04
There's not a breath of humor — not one little joke — in the entire two hour length -- a sign of the kind of importance that can be pretty hard to take.
07/05/04
A moving adaptation of Michael Cunningham's elegant novel about one day in the lives of three women in different time periods.
06/23/04
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05/19/04
An exquisitely insightful exploration of life's little revelations.
11/11/03
It’s questionable whether Michael Cunningham’s book could ever be adequately translated into film... and this version, while rewarding, isn’t quite up to the task.
10/07/03
I still love it. In fact, I find it life-affirming — its message: to pay attention to the hours because a whole life can be contained in a single day.
07/03/03
. . .weighted with such dramatic heft that one can do little more than marvel at its seriousness, embrace the tragedy that lies within, and then, once all of the crying is finished, never see it again.
06/10/03
Julianne Moore gives an amazing performance in the poignant '50s segment. The modern section was thoroughly underwhelming.
06/08/03
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05/20/03
What a disappointment.
04/25/03
"Some things were very beautiful," Virginia Woolf writes in Mrs. Dalloway. The Hours is one of those things.
04/25/03
A breathtaking experience.
04/05/03
Si en el 7o. arte existe lo perfecto, The Hours se acerca mucho a ello.
03/25/03
For all its grandiloquent intentions of mapping the human condition and its often thin veil of sanity over three generations, 'The Hours' is a melodrama that would feel right at home on the Lifetime network.
03/20/03
Las Horas es una de las obras que con mayor apasionamiento reflexiona acerca del hecho de vivir...
03/19/03
A great two hours for book-of-the-month club coffee house types ... but a downbeat snooze festivus for the rest of us.
03/18/03
Since it is such a well-known fact that Hollywood regularly fails to provide good roles for women, The Hours seems almost like an overindulgence, packing three excellent female performances into the same film.
03/18/03
Latest News for The Hours
May 05, 2008:
Kidman tipped to play Dusty 
Nicole Kidman has been tapped to play the bee-hived chanteuse, Dusty Springfield, in a biopic to be written by Michael Cunningham, who she worked with for The Hours. More...
June 21, 2006:
Natalie Portman Aboard "Boleyn" and "Kavalier"
The universally-adored and very cute Natalie Portman seems to have a pretty high profile pair of freshly-inked contracts. On one hand, she'll be starring in a historical drama... More...
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