Hours, The
[DVD Info]

This flick follows a day in the life of three women all whom were affected by the novel "Mrs. Dalloway". The first woman is Virgina Woolf (Nicole Kidman) in Richmond, England 1923. She is a writer who is struggling against a mental illness. She's trying to write a book called "Mrs. Dalloway." She is tired of being tip-toed around and told what to do by doctors. She longs to be back in London with her sister and begs her husband to let her go back. He finally says yes but she kills herself anyway.

Laura Brown (Julianne Moore) is a house wife in Los Angeles, 1951. She has a son and is pregnant with a girl. On this day it's her husband's birthday. She figures out she's a lesbian and feels like she's trapped in her life. After reading "Mrs. Dalloway" she decides she wants to kill herself.

In New York in 2001...the last woman, Clarissa Vaghn (Meryl Streep), is a woman who's life is playing out exactly like the character in "Mrs. Dalloway." She's throwing a party for a friend who won an award for writing a book. Her friend, however, is dying of Aids. After a terrible tragedy occurs she's left to deal with the aftermath and discover herself and find out what her life in about.

"That's what people do...they stay alive for each other!" ~Clarissa.

Nicole Kidman's nose. They put a prostetic one on. It looks so bad! If they show her straight on it looks like they just piled clay on her nose. It's terrible! Did people in editing look at it and go... "Wow...that looks really good!"??? Geez

Wow. What a depressing movie. Not only that, but the way they edited it out left the movie choppy and disfigured. The acting was good (a little forced)...it's just the story itself. It was interesting but not necessarily in a good way. It just was. The book seems like it would be better. Not a very good adaptation. Maybe I'm not mature enough to watch movies like these but I found it preachy and depressing. Because of this, the jury gives this flick:

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