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Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Ed Harris, John C. Reilly, Allison Janney, Toni Collette, MIranda Richardson, Jeff Daniels, Claire Daines

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ScarlettMi

This movie means a ton to me. It's based on the book "The Hours" by Michael Cunningham which was obviously hugely influenced by and about Virginia Woolf and her novel, "Mrs. Dalloway." For a movie that's very much about suicide and depression and that makes me cry; I find it also filled with hope and ecstatic joy and catharsis. I love the concept of the author writing a story, a reader finding meaning through the story, and a person living a life in parallel with the story. I have also spent more time than I can measure listening to the Philip Glass score over and over again.

Actuarial Lurker

Kidman won Best Actress, Harris was nominated for Best Supporting Actor, Moore for Supporting Actress, also nominated for Best Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Costume, Editing and Score. Never read Mrs. Dalloway, but DID read A Room of One's Own and To The Light House in a senior year literature Course as part of my Minor in English... very DENSE and intense author...To the Lighthouse makes The Sound and The Fury seem like easy reading...

ScarlettMi

There were so many fantastic and interesting roles for women that year. Hell, it was a fantastic year for Julianne Moore alone with nominations for Best Actress for Far from Heaven and Best Supporting for The Hours. 2002 was filled with movies I really connected with.

I🖤Kraken

Some empathy and terror for all the Sally Drapers running our world right now...

ScarlettMi

Meryl Streep was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Adaptation. this same year, while Kidman won Best Actress for The Hours who beat Julianne Moore for Far From Heaven who was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress for The Hours who lost to Catherine Zeta-Jones for Chicago.

Actuarial Lurker

If its the US Senate she would be "too young and inexperienced"...

Youtalkingtome

I'm so glad Julianne Moore has an Oscar, because she is almost always flawless in her performances.

Youtalkingtome

It's a wonderfully complex story, and you're right. The score is also marvelous.

Youtalkingtome

Lot of good performances in the actress categories in 2002!

Suzanne Whyte

I always get this movie mixed up with The Others.

Suzanne Whyte

A stacked cast filled with supremely talented women telling women’s stories? The guys won’t be shaking their reputation as gynocentric reactors with movies like this one.

Youtalkingtome

Ugh. It'll be like all the Sorkin Bros during the West Wing all over again.

Jeff

I read this novel before seeing the movie, and even though I hadn't read "Mrs. Dalloway" or any other Virginia Woolf works, I found the book's shifting perspectives and intertwining stories very engaging and moving. Much of the credit for the success of the film can be given to the screenwriter and editor for their choices in adapting a very complicated novel. Another interesting addition to these themes is the surprisingly uplifting song "Virginia Woolf" by Indigo Girls, in which songwriter Emily Saliers expresses her reactions to reading the personal diaries of Virginia Woolf.

BrummaGen

I'm so glad to have finally seen this film. I was aware of it when it came out and knew that it was based on Virginia Woolf had different timelines. As I'd only got round to reading Woolf's essay 'A Room of One's Own' at that point, I held off from seeing the film. Got round to reading Mrs Dalloway about 12 years ago - I actually read it as an audiobook, which was a surprisingly successful way to experience a novel which is written in a stream of consciousness style. I hadn't realised that The Hours was inspired by Mrs Dalloway in particular, so it was a delight to spot the connections as they unfolded. As one or both of you plan to read the book (when do you find time for reading as well as watching all these films and shows?!!) I won't say much more about it so as not to spoil your experience. But just one detail - Meryl Streep's character's first name is Clarissa, which is also the first name of Woolf's Mrs Dalloway. This is why she was given the nickname 'Mrs Dalloway' by Richard - also presumably because she seems to like (or feel obliged?) to give parties...

Daniel Lydford

Allison Janney wasn't in The West Wing season 2 episode 17 People because she was filming re-shoots for this movie.

seth e.

there's not much in this film about it, but Virginia Woolf was pretty famously a lesbian, or at least, spoke of her love for her husband more platonically while having affairs with women (notably fellow writer Vita Sackville-West from the early 1920s-30s). So the layer of how each of these women experiences queerness in their time period adds a lot - Virginia's mental illness and the control of men separates her from that part of her self, Laura has to leave her family realizing that her experience as a wife is never going to be fulfilling the way her friends' is, while Clarissa can openly have a female partner and a child, but still lives in a time when AIDS fallout and messy romantic entanglements, while truer in some ways, cause their own pain