Friday, January 17, 2003

PG-13

For mature thematic elements, some disturbing images, brief language

Drama

Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, Stephen Dillane, Miranda Richardson, George Loftus, Charley Ramm, Sophie Wyburd, Lyndsay Marshal, Linda Bassett, Christian Coulson, Michael Culkin, John C. Reilly, Jack Rovello, Toni Collette, Margo Martin

David Hare

Stephen Daldry

Hours, The (2003)

The period drama "The Hours" simultaneously follows the stories of three different women in three different time periods. One revolves around the depressed Virginia Woolf battling the onset of depression while writing the novel Mrs. Dalloway. The other two stories detail a housewife in L.A during the year 1949 and a present day woman throwing a party for a friend with AIDS. The story is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Michael Cunningham, which was written in high praise of Woolf's famous novel, Mrs. Dalloway.