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NUMBERS
Box Office: $41,465,765
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CONSENSUS
The movie may be a downer, but it packs an emotional wallop. Some fine acting on display here.
CAST & CREW
Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore
Directed by Stephen Daldry
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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. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, mature thematic elements, some disturbing images, and brief language
RUNTIME
1 hour, 51 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Jan 10, 2003
Video: Jun 24, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Paramount Pictures
GENRE
Dramas, Short Stories, Women, Reading, Based On A Novel
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official The Hours Site
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SOUNDTRACK REVIEWS
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TRAILER & MEDIA
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 "For its seriousness, high literary aspirations and stunning acting, the film can only be applauded."
-- Erica Abeel, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
 "The filmmakers juggle and juxtapose three story lines but fail to come up with one cogent point, unless it's that life stinks, especially for sensitive married women who really love other women."
-- Todd Anthony, SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
"Unfortunately, the picture failed to capture me. I found it slow, drab, and bordering on melodramatic."
-- Ross Anthony, HOLLYWOOD REPORT CARD
"A big-budget/all-star movie as unblinkingly pure as The Hours is a distinct rarity, and an event."
-- William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"The film manages to be cinematic and transporting even though we generally spend most of our time listening to people talk to one another (and themselves)."
-- Joe Baltake, SACRAMENTO BEE
"...a triumph of emotionally and narratively complex filmmaking."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"A moving essay about the specter of death, especially suicide."
-- Jay Boyar, ORLANDO SENTINEL
"...is there a deeper, more direct connection between these women, one that spans time and reveals meaning? You bet there is and it’s what makes this rather convoluted journey worth taking."
-- Luanne Brown, CHICO ENTERPRISE-RECORD
"Like The English Patient and The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Hours is one of those reputedly "unfilmable" novels that has bucked the odds to emerge as an exquisite motion picture in its own right."
-- Matt Brunson, CREATIVE LOAFING
"Las Horas es una de las obras que con mayor apasionamiento reflexiona acerca del hecho de vivir..."
-- Enrique Buchichio, URUGUAY TOTAL
"Almost every scene in this film is a gem that could stand alone, a perfectly realized observation of mood, behavior and intent."
-- Robert W. Butler, KANSAS CITY STAR
"Brings awareness to an issue often overlooked -- women's depression."
-- Jeffrey Chen, WINDOW TO THE MOVIES
"With the prospect of films like Kangaroo Jack about to burst across America’s winter movie screens it's a pleasure to have a film like The Hours as an alternative."
-- Robin Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
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"'Pocas veces es posible ver un elenco tan compenetrado con la historia, donde todos y cada uno de los actores ofrecen actuaciones verdaderamente memorables.'"
-- Jorge Avila Andrade, MOVIOLA
"...watching this film nearly provoked me to take my own life. And if The Hours wins 'Best Picture' I just might."
-- Bruce Bennett, SPECTRUM (ST. GEORGE, UTAH)
"If an Oscar category existed for ensemble acting, The Hours would unquestionably earn it. Watching a trio of actors at the top of their game is a delight."
-- Bob Bloom, JOURNAL AND COURIER (LAFAYETTE, IN)
"If you really want to understand what this story is really all about, you're far better served by the source material."
-- Josef Braun, VUE WEEKLY (EDMONTON, CANADA)
"The Hours, a delicately crafted film, is an impressive achievement in spite of a river of sadness that pours into every frame."
-- Jeffrey Bruner, DES MOINES REGISTER
"One of the best films of the year with its exquisite acting, inventive screenplay, mesmerizing music, and many inimitable scenes of tenderness, loss, discontent, and yearning."
-- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH
"A bloated gasbag thesis grotesquely impressed by its own gargantuan aura of self-importance..."
-- Sean Burns, PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY
"Hypnotically dull, relentlessly downbeat, laughably predictable wail pitched to the cadence of a depressed fifteen-year-old's suicidal poetry."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"The Hours makes you examine your own life in much the same way its characters do, and the experience is profound. The Hours is what movies are supposed to be..."
-- Cory Cheney, URBAN TULSA WEEKLY
"The ingenious construction (adapted by David Hare from Michael Cunningham's novel) constantly flows forwards and back, weaving themes among three strands which allow us to view events as if through a prism"
-- Laura Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
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FRESH 84%
Avg. Rating: 7.9/10 |
"Some fine acting, but ultimately a movie with no reason for being."
-- John Anderson, NEWSDAY
"I'm sure mainstream audiences will be baffled, but, for those with at least a minimal appreciation of Woolf and Clarissa Dalloway, The Hours represents two of those well spent."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"Far from a bad film, and at least two of its central trio of performances provide moments of disarming grace, but don't be surprised if a whiff of self-congratulation emanates from the screen."
-- Ty Burr, BOSTON GLOBE
"Rarely does such high-profile talent serve such literate material."
-- Mark Caro, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"The acting, for the most part, is terrific, although the actors must struggle with the fact that they're playing characters who sometimes feel more like literary conceits than flesh-and-blood humans."
-- Robert Denerstein, DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
"For a movie audience, The Hours doesn't connect in a neat way, but introduces characters who illuminate mysteries of sex, duty and love."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"It never fails to engage us."
-- Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
"Hare manages to 'open up' the book by dramatizing the characters' inner turmoil exactly as he would have to on stage."
-- Rick Groen, GLOBE AND MAIL
"A compelling, moving film that respects its audience and its source material."
-- Eric Harrison, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"Ms. Kidman, in a performance of astounding bravery, evokes the savage inner war waged by a brilliant mind against a system of faulty wiring that transmits a searing, crazy static into her brain."
-- Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES
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"The film is way too full of itself; it’s stuffy and pretentious in a give-me-an-Oscar kind of way."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
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* Who are the Approved Tomatometer Critics?
* Mouse over a tomato icon for a publication's original rating. Original rating not available for every publication.
* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "The Hours" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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