The Hours

About The Hours

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.

The Hours (2002) is a drama film directed by Stephen Daldry. Released in December 2002, it runs 114 minutes.

Its themes are depression, AIDS, poetry, and drowning. It is adapted from a novel.

Nicole Kidman takes the lead as Virginia Woolf, Julianne Moore as Laura Brown, Meryl Streep as Clarissa Vaughan, and Stephen Dillane as Leonard Woolf. The screenplay is by David Hare. In the United States it streams on fuboTV, MGM+ Amazon Channel, and MGM Plus.

Sebastian, The Shining, and The Prestige make useful companions to The Hours, all filed under LGBT, literature, and writer. TMDB voters put it at 7.2 out of 10 across 1,922 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.