The Hours

Synopsis

Three women, each living in a different time and place, are all linked by their yearnings and their fears as they search for more potent, meaningful lives.

Virginia Woolf (Kidman), in a suburb of London in the early 1920s, is battling insanity as she begins to write her first great novel, Mrs. Dalloway.

Laura Brown (Moore), a wife and mother in Los Angeles at the end of World War II, is reading Mrs. Dalloway, and finding it so revelatory that she begins to consider making a devasting change in her life.

Clarissa Vaughan (Streep), a contemporary version of Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, lives in New York City today, and is in love with her friend Richard (Harris), a brilliant poet who is dying of AIDS.

Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.

Cast

Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Claire Danes, Stephen Dillane, Allison Janney, John C. Reilly, Miranda Richardson, Toni Collette, Jeff Daniels, Jack Rovello, George Loftus