Year			2002
Genre			Drama, romance
Rating			PG
Parents			Not recommended for young children, sexual content
Length			1:54
Director			Stephen Daldry
Writer			Michael Cunningham David Hare
Company			Paramount Pictures
Starring			Meryl Streep Julianne Moore Nicole Kidman Ed Harris Eileen Atkins Toni Collette Show more... Meryl Streep Julianne Moore Nicole Kidman Ed Harris Eileen Atkins Toni Collette Claire Danes Stephen Dillane Allison Janney Charley Ramm John C. Reilly Miranda Richardson

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 yeamings and thier fears. Virginia Woolf, in a suburb of London in the early 1920's, is batting 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 recongnition.