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| FILM DETAILS | | Certificate 12A | | Cast
Nicole Kidman
Julianne Moore
John C Reilly
Meryl Streep
Claire Danes | | Directors
Stephen Daldry | | Screenwriters
David Hare | | Running Time
110 minutes |
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The Hours
Superbly played interwoven tale of Virginia Woolf and two other women later in history who are affected by her work.
Plot
In 1923, Virgina Woolf is fighting mental illness and writer's block, as she struggles with her latest novel, Mrs. Dalloway. The book will later play a role in the lives of two other women: repressed '50s housewife Laura Brown and modern-day socialite Clarissa Vaughan.
Verdict
Wonderfully acted, elegantly written and tightly directed, but by breaking the spell of its opening mood it becomes the kind of worthy Bohemian melodrama it promises not to be.
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