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	The Hours - Movie Rental Review
		The movie has tense and sad situations, including two suicides and one near-suicide.
		This is a smart, thoughtful, Oscar-bait movie, beautifully directed by Steven Daldry ("Billy Elliot") and beautifully performed by Streep, Kidman, Moore, and supporting actors Harris, Claire Danes, and Toni Collette.
		Families who enjoy this movie will also enjoy "Julia," "Far from Heaven," and another movie based on a Virginia Woolf book, "Orlando," the story of a character who lives from Elizabethan times to the 20th century, first as a man and then as a woman.
	www.commonsensemedia.org /movie-reviews/Hours.html (829 words)

	The Hours (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Hours is an Academy Award winning film about three women of different generations and times whose lives are interconnected by the novel Mrs.
		The film was directed by Stephen Daldry, with a soundtrack by Philip Glass, and was released December 18, 2002.
		One of the most acclaimed films of 2002, The Hours received a number of awards and nominations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Hours_(movie) (728 words)

	Spirituality & Health: Movie Review: The Hours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In the stunning opening scene of this inventive and mesmerizing film, Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) is penning a farewell letter to her husband.
		We immediately recognize this is not an ordinary movie.
		The Hours is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Michael Cunningham with a screenplay by David Hare.
	www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/items/moviereview/item_5466.html (1084 words)

	The Hours Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Dalloway, the Virginia Woolf novel that inspired it, The Hours is haunted by the specter of suicide.
		It is something that the three women at the heart of its story wrestle with as, in the words of one, they "face the hours" of their compromised lives — the ghosts of their pasts and the unhappiness they currently feel.
		That being said, The Hours nonetheless deserves to be seen for the superb performances of the film's three stars: Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore and Nicole Kidman, who won an Academy Award for her daring performance as the troubled English novelist Virginia Woolf.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=134834 (1745 words)

	The Hours - a Movie Review of The Phantom Tollbooth
		It's the epithet Francois Truffaut gave to French films of the '40s and '50s, movies that announced their importance by their literary subject matter, their stuffy acting, and their general lack of creativity.
		The Hours begins with a suicide, and it's not the last one we'll see before its two hours are over.
		Movies about depression show up only around Oscar Time, but they rarely arrive with as much energy and emotion as The Hours does.
	www.tollbooth.org /2003/movies/hours.html (1441 words)

	The Hours
		Unlike that film, "The Hours" explores the writer's creative process while showing her work's impact on a reader decades later and also reinventing her story in the present day.
		With "The Hours" Daldry and screenwriter Hare have not only cinematically adapted a work of literature, but turned it upside down and inside out.
		The Hours belongs to the actors with Kidman, almost not recognized made up as Virginia Woolf, getting the lion share of praise of the three female leads.
	www.reelingreviews.com /thehours.htm (1403 words)

	The Hours Movie Review
		The Hours is one of those movies that is almost too good for its own good.
		The movie is about characters and behavior with common themes and ideas running throughout.
		Dalloway." The third plotline in The Hours takes place in Manhattan 2001 (essentially present-day, although pre-9/11), with Meryl Streep as book editor Clarissa Vaughan on the day she is planning a party for her dying former lover (Ed Harris, in a showcase of controlled rage and regret) who refers to her repeatedly as "Mrs.
	www.angelfire.com /journal2/livewire/hoursreview.htm (859 words)

	The Hours Movie Review
		Before I go into any in-depth commentary on this movie, I have to comment on the fact that most people who see the trailer and/or read any synopsis of the film will most likely label it as a chick flick without a second thought.
		That being said, I am excited to say that The Hours is one of the most well-directed, thought-provoking, strongly-acted works of cinema I have seen in years.
		After watching The Hours, I was in a state of mind I often seek but rarely attain: that of passion and a sense of purpose.
	www.killermovies.com /h/thehours/reviews/jlx.html (1476 words)

	Review: Hours, The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The movie does not immediately exclude anyone unfamiliar with Woolf's first great novel, but their appreciation will be limited.
		The movie appealed to me on an intellectual level, but there was little emotional connection.
		Paramount's decision to release The Hours at the end of the year is a transparent grab for Oscar nominations.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/h/hours.html (655 words)

	Christopher Smith : Week in Rewind.com The Hours Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The movie, which was nominated Tuesday for nine Academy Awards and which Daldry ("Billy Elliott") based on David Hare's script, begins with Woolf's suicide and then fades to fl, shattering any formal structure to take audiences on a journey back and forward through time that will last the rest of the film.
		It's the sort of movie that, in the wrong hands, could have become a conceptual nightmare, a film whose soul might have been lost in the stitching together of its many parts.
		It's a throwaway comment that recalls "Dalloway's" famous opening line and you can't help thinking: 80 years of women's lib has allowed this modern Clarissa to be free with her sexuality and to enjoy a career once dominated by men, but she's still saddled with the role of a caretaker.
	www.weekinrewind.com /Reviews/e-h/TheHours.htm (646 words)

	"The Hours" movie review by Marian Horvat, Ph.D. @ TraditionInAction.org
		She seems a crazy, unbalanced woman, unhappily married with lesbian tendencies, but this, or so the movie implies, is the reaction of the unenlightened.
		In the movie she plays a “prophetic” role, prefiguring what will happen decades later in the lives of two other women, both lesbians struggling with a analogous sense of the futility of life and influenced by the book she is writing.
		The movie makes this clear with another flashback to the day of Woolf, who, so to speak, foresees the transmission in a scene with another young child, her niece.
	www.traditioninaction.org /movies/004mrTheHours.htm (1385 words)

	Movieman's Guide to the Movies - The Hours (2002)
		From the movie, I can surmise that despite (or maybe because?) of her talents, she was slowly going mad and driving herself to the one and only possible conclusion to her life.
		In The Hours, of course, I think she had more to do and therefore showcased her talents given the amount of screen time she has.
		Overall, while The Hours is not a movie I want to see again (until DVD, at least), it is a beautiful film with wonderful performances all around.
	www.moviemansguide.com /hours.php (761 words)

	Rod Dreher on The Hours on National Review Online
		Now that I've seen The Hours, though, I know that if she were to decide one day, out of nowhere, to walk out on the boy and me … well, life is like that.
		The Hours is a feminist movie that has been praised to the skies by critics, took home some major Golden Globe awards, and is expected to do well in upcoming Academy Award nominations.
		If you buy the moral of this movie, you probably find nothing objectionable about Steinem's characterization of Virginia Woolf's suicide as a "radical act of self-deliverance." The only way one could describe suicide in such positive terms is by ignoring the effect it has on those left behind.
	www.nationalreview.com /dreher/dreher012403.asp (1736 words)

	USATODAY.com - Flood movie is '14 Hours' too long (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		We may not expect much from a disaster movie, but we do expect disaster to strike within a reasonable amount of cinematic time — say, somewhere between the start of the movie and when we start to nod off.
		Hours claims to be "inspired by actual events," but so much is implausible, it's hard to know where fact ends and poorly conceived fiction begins.
		Once the power goes out, the movie shifts into hospital soap mode; near the end, Hours morphs again, into the story of everyday citizens coming to the rescue.
	www.usatoday.com /life/television/reviews/2005-03-31-14-hours_x.htm (328 words)

	24 Hours of Movie Watching
		About halfway through, I'd decided that the only possible explanation for the choppy editing, lack of any sort of transitions from scene to scene, and the virtually incoherent ramblings that passed for a narrative was that the movie had been randomly and with malice aforethought edited for television.
		The movie occasionally tries desperately to make a point, usually through long, blustery speeches by Hines, but more often fails to have one.
		THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (Supplements: B, Movie: A) From El Naufrago de la Calle de Providencia, the homage to Luis Bunuel included on the first disc of Criterion's special edition release of The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, one could easily assume that Bunuel was a notorious drunk.
	www.cinescene.com /ed/24hours.html (1247 words)

	The Movie Chicks - Review - The Hours
		The movie is told in three parts: a writer composing her story, a woman reading the story years later, and finally, a modern-day version of the character in the story.
		All three parts are woven together to create a unique look at women struggling with depression and questioning their choices in life - trying to make it through the hours in their day.
		A review for this movie would not be complete unless we said something about how Nicole Kidman is unrecognizable on screen - it's amazing what a fake nose and some hair dye will do (she looks like an older version of Leelee Sobieski).
	www.themoviechicks.com /jan2003/mcrhours.html (440 words)

	The Hours (Movie)
		Streep is having a good run of it this month: First Adaptation, where she seemed newly freed-up and languorous, and now The Hours, where her pinpoint sensitivities are so expressive that you feel as if you’re inside her skin.
		On the surface, Clarissa has a comfortable life: She’s lived for ten years with the same woman (Allison Janney), has been a book editor with the same publisher for years, and has an agreeably cynical daughter (Claire Danes) who is helping out on the day of the party.
		The Hours is intended as a testament to the belief that, despite appearances, there are no ordinary lives.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /movies/articles/02/12/hours.htm (841 words)

	The Hours (Movie)
		Streep is having a good run of it this month: First Adaptation, where she seemed newly freed-up and languorous, and now The Hours, where her pinpoint sensitivities are so expressive that you feel as if you’re inside her skin.
		On the surface, Clarissa has a comfortable life: She’s lived for ten years with the same woman (Allison Janney), has been a book editor with the same publisher for years, and has an agreeably cynical daughter (Claire Danes) who is helping out on the day of the party.
		The Hours is intended as a testament to the belief that, despite appearances, there are no ordinary lives.
	nymag.com /movies/articles/02/12/hours.htm (855 words)

	The Hours Movie Day
		The Hours is a movie that takes place in one day.
		This movie is well filmed because you are on edge the entire time.
		You can't relax, and so the movie successfully illustrates the "environment" of the characters in the movie.
	www.electronicbookshere.com /screenwriting_articles/The_Hours_movie_day.html (220 words)

	The Hours : Movie Description, Show times & Film Critics - Films - CinemaMontreal.com
		I would give this movie a 10 but, I must admit, the soundtrack by Philip Glass was at sometimes too heavy and omni-present for my taste.
		If you are seeking a change of pace in your movie going nights this would be a good movie to watch because of its artistic and complex story mixes.
		It is one of those movies that make you think of life and the meaning of your own existence.
	www.cinemamontreal.com /aw/crva.aw/p.cm/r.ont/m.All/j.e/i.4532/s.3/f.The_Hours.html (745 words)

	The Hours: A Ransom Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hours explores the idea of a single day encapsuling all of life; as Woolf puts it in musing about her heroine, “Just one day...
		The poet, the visionary—in The Hours Woolf and the poet Richard, friend of Clarissa’s—is driven to suicide just because his gift for that which most mocks man’s meaningless existence, art, forces them to confront regularly the disconnect between the apparent nobility and value of man and his actual hollowness.
		At its deepest level, The Hours is a study of life lived from hour to hour in fear and anxiety that man will never find rest, never be at ease in the world as he or she know it.
	www.ransomfellowship.org /articles_movies/M_Hours.html (1151 words)

	'The Hours' - MOVIE REVIEW - Los Angeles Times - calendarlive.com
		Michael Cunningham's "The Hours" is a superlative piece of fiction, a novelist's novel that became a surprise bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize.
		Ultimately, though not everyone in the piece does so, "The Hours" is about choosing life over death, about why we persist in holding on to our existence despite the pain it is sure to cause us.
		While Cunningham's book emphasized the interconnectedness of these lives by alternating chapters about each of them, "The Hours" goes it one better, especially in its early stages, by confidently and intimately intercutting the stories by means of parallel gestures and words.
	www.calendarlive.com /movies/reviews/cl-et-turan27dec27,0,7478042.story (1618 words)

	Movie: The Hours
		"The Hours" depicts three middle-aged women, all clinically depressed or profoundly unhappy, on one troubling day in their seemingly unrelated lives.
		We see her walk into a river in the movie's opening moments, calmly committing suicide in 1941, but most of her scenes take place 18 years earlier.
		She has been sent to the country on the advice of doctors who fear for her nervous system; as husband Leonard (Stephen Dillane) watches anxiously, she grapples with feelings of alienation and tries to write "Mrs.
	ae.charlotte.com /entertainment/ui/charlotte/movie.html?id=84567&reviewId=10962&startDate=01/17/2003 (588 words)

	The Hours Movie Review - The Hours Movie Trailer - The Boston Globe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		''The Hours'' is far from a bad film, and at least two of its central trio of performances provide moments of disarming grace, but don't be surprised if a whiff of self-congratulation emanates from the screen.
		In a movie that too often pats itself on the back, Kidman provides the one note of lived-in authenticity: Through sheer focus, she avoids the vanity attendant on a movie star playing ''dowdy.''
		Where ''The Hours'' most seriously missteps is in depriving the male characters of the inner lives Cunningham gave them.
	www.boston.com /movies/display?display=movie&id=1840 (790 words)

	Movie Review - The Hours - www.ericdsnider.com - The Official Website of Eric D. Snider (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		"The Hours" is a parade of sad, beautiful performances, a sort of gorgeous funeral procession of acting.
		Yet here it is, directed by Stephen Daldry ("Billy Elliot") with such grace and cinematic flair that it's hard to imagine it NOT being a movie.
		When "The Hours" is over, you are blissfully unaware of the cunning necessary to pull off such a fine film; all you know is that you have seen a masterful piece of work whose emotional resonance is so natural, you wonder why more films can't accomplish it.
	www.ericdsnider.com /movies/the-hours (798 words)

	TNMC Movie Reviews: The Hours
		The Hours is a movie of three vaguely related storylines.
		Most of the movie gave me the feeling of having walked in half an hour late.
		It finally occurred to me that the problem was the very one that must have been most daunting to the screenwriter.
	www.tnmc.org /batcave/hours.shtml (1170 words)

	The Hours reviewed on AudioRevolution.com
		Woolf's idea for the novel was that one day in the life of a person could be indicative of their entire life.
		Her novel is written that way -- and each of the segments of "The Hours" shows one day in the life of the women the film centers on.
		Daldry, whose only prior movie was "Billy Elliot," smoothly moves from one story to another, but never quite achieves the synthesis of underlying meaning that he's clearly reaching for.
	www.avrev.com /movies/hours/index.html (955 words)

	Film Review: The Hours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Hours is fourth-fifths of the best movie of the year.
		The words "gay" and "lesbian" aren't even spoke in the film, as gayness isn't even really the true subject of the film; female depression is. It's not Go Fish, nor is it the type of lesbianism likely to appeal to Howard Stern fans.
		The Hours deserved to be seen all by itself for the great cast, the best assembled for a Hollywood film in many years.
	www.iofilm.co.uk /fm/h/hours_2002_r2.shtml (520 words)

	CNN.com - Review: Slow going for 'The Hours' - Jan. 10, 2003
		In his artful, Pulitzer Prize-winning 1998 novel, ''The Hours,'' Michael Cunningham retained the mathematical poetry of one day = one life, then multiplied the degree of artistic difficulty by three, spanning time and geography to describe a trio of women's lives simultaneously: As Virginia Woolf writes a first sentence (''Mrs.
		Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself''), Laura Brown, a housewife and mother in 1949 Los Angeles, is simultaneously engrossed in the finished book, losing herself in the very ordinary, very interior struggles of Woolf's heroine to keep from drowning in her own unhappiness.
		By improvising on her theme in triplicate in his novel, Cunningham paid homage to his elder and expressed mid- and end-of-century anxieties with striking literary flair.
	cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/10/ew.review.hours (865 words)

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