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| THE HOURS is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place; all are linked by their yearnings and their fears.
Virginia Woolf, in a suburb of London in the early 1920's, is battling insanity as she begins to write her first great novel, "Mrs. Dalloway".
Laura Brown, a wife and mother in Los Angeles at the end of World War Two, is reading "Mrs. Dalloway", and finding it so revelatory that she begins to consider making a devastating change in her life.
Clarissa Vaughan, a contemporary version of Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, lives in New York City today, and is in love with her friend Richard, a brilliant poet who is dying of AIDS.
Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.
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A Virginia Woolf novel written in despair gives hope to those who read it...
Three interwoven stories from three different eras, all influenced by Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs Dalloway.
Played out against a backdrop of hope, despair, death and rebirth, the story begins with depressed novelist Woolf (Kidman) embarking on one of her greatest works.
The story flits between 1950s America, with housewife Laura Brown (Moore) painfully coming to terms with her true self, and modern-day Manhattan, as affluent publisher Clarissa Vaughan (Streep) struggles to hold a party for an author friend dying of AIDS.
Beautifully acted and sensitively directed, this touching drama earned Kidman an Oscar for her role as the doomed writer, while director Stephen Daldry, the man behind Billy Elliot, brings just the right degree of sensitivity to the material, adapted skilfully by acclaimed playwright David Hare.
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