A Hours is an Academy Award winning film about three women of different generations and days whose spends come interconnected per 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 tumultuous 1950s housewife who is reading a novel Mrs. Dalloway, & Meryl Streep plays a book editor in the 2000s world health organization is arranging the person for a friend who is to receive an award for his collection of verse form. He is besides anxious from either Helps. Miranda Richardson (as Woolf's older sister Vanessa Bell), Toni Collette, Claire Danes, Ed Harris, Allison Janney and John C. Reilly also star.

A film's sceenplay was written by David Hare, based on a Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award winning 1998 novel, The Hours, by Michael Cunningham. A film was directed by Stephen Daldry, with the soundtrack by Philip Glass, and was freed December 18, 2002.

One of a virtually all acclaimed films of 2002, The Hours received the total of awards & nominations. Winning the 2003 Golden Globes for Better Motion Picture - Drama & Better Performance by an Actress inside a Motion Picture - Drama (for Kidman). A film was largely shut away from its Nine Academy Award nominations. A film did, even so, launch Kidman send on when one of Hollywood's most able dramatic actresses. Kidman won two a Golden Globe and the Oscar for Best Actress. Kidman's portrayal around the film, where she bore a prosthetic nose, highlighted the Hollywood hearsay that beautiful actresses may merely receive the better spectacular roles another time it diminish their physical attributes in a role. More actresses that won a 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.

Quotes

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Brief cast

Nicole Kidman ... when Virginia Woolf Julianne Moore ... when Laura Brown Meryl Streep ... when Clarissa Vaughn Stephen Dillane ... when Leonard Woolf Miranda Richardson ... when Vanessa Bell John C. Reilly ... when Dan Brown Toni Collette ... when Kitty Barlowe

Plot summary

A story of how else a 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: A period to hide is ended. A instance to ruefulness is never to return. A instance to survive is nowadays''.

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

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