Topics: H : Hours, The

The Hours - UK/USA (2002), directed by Stephen Daldry, from a screenplay by David Hare, based on the novel by Michael Cunningham. The Hours interweaves three stories about a critical day in the lives of Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) as she struggles to write her esteemed 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway, unhappy 1950s housewife Laura Brown (Julianne Moore) who finds solace in Woolf's book, and Clarissa Vaughan (Meryl Streep) a 2001 incarnation of Mrs Dalloway. Music score by Philip Glass.