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Reviews Counted:185
Fresh:149
Rotten:36
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: The movie may be a downer, but it packs an emotional wallop. Some fine acting on display here.
Runtime: 1 hr 56 mins
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $41,465,765
Synopsis: Based on the Pulitzer-prize winning novel by Michael Cunningham, THE HOURS employs Virginia Woolf's classic novel and central character, MRS. DALLOWAY, as its foundation and inspiration. Spanning... [More]
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Toni Collette
Director: Stephen Daldry
Stephen Daldry has brought together all these strands and complex lives that question the essence of life and death, in a striking and compelling way. This is a story that tries to define happiness. It is about facing the many hours that lie between happi
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Top CriticExcellent dramatic storytelling.
Top CriticDaldry's screen version is well acted if too pedestrian and literal, and it doesn't capture the complexity or the lyrical qualities of Michael Cunningham's seminal novel.
More than just Oscar bait; it's a veritable Oscar bait and tackle shop.
David Hare's screen adaptation reduces Woolf and her art to a set of feminist stances and a few plot points, without reference to style or form.
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The Hours totally engrosses me... It somehow deepens the [book's] themes to see the bodies, scrutinize the faces, smell the money, feel the flatness of the screen.
A boldly realised, affecting work.
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The film's true star is its script.
Life may or may not be everything it's cracked up to be. This movie most definitely is.
If this movie is about how some choose not to live, it's also just as much about why others choose to go on.
Does make you think, but it doesn't entertain.
'In a sublime collaboration, David Hare and Stephen Daldry have created a delicate atmosphere of inchoate sadness.'
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It works like the best poetry, giving us room to explore ideas and issues instead of narrowing itself to simple moral lessons.
Lost we become in story telling that emphasizes cuts and coincidences, leaving serious characterization gaps.
A feminist diatribe and it's true to its core as it shows men as marginalized.
A puzzling and forbidding strangeness.
May 05, 2008:
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Nicole Kidman has been tapped to play the bee-hived chanteuse, Dusty Springfield, in a biopic to be written by Michael Cunningham, who she worked with for The Hours. More...
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