The Hours
Dec 27 2002
•2h 54m
•Drama
"The Hours" is 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. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.
Cast
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Julianne Moore
Laura Brown
Nicole Kidman
Virginia Woolf
Meryl Streep
Clarissa Vaughan
Stephen Dillane
Leonard Woolf
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