The Hours
The time to hide is over. The time to regret is gone. The time to live is now.
Country
Production
Genre
Budget
$25 000 000
Revenue
$108 846 217
Director
Actors
Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, Stephen Dillane, Jack Rovello, Ed Harris, Miranda Richardson, John C. Reilly, Allison Janney, George Loftus
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Operator
Seamus McGarvey
Composer
Artist
Maria Djurkovic
Audition
Patsy Pollock, Daniel Swee
Editing
Peter Boyle
All team (65)
All team (65)
Short description
The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.
What's left behind the scenes
- Gwyneth Paltrow and Emily Watson were considered for the role of Laura Brown.
- The film is based on Michael Cunningham's novel "The Hours" (1998).
- 'The Hours' was the first title considered for Woolf's novel 'Mrs. Dalloway'.
- Michael Cunningham, the author of the novel on which the film is based, made a cameo appearance in the film – as a passerby near the flower shop where Meryl Streep's character buys a bouquet.
- Scenes between Clarissa Vaughan and Louis Waters were reshot because initially the role of Louis was played by actor Zelko Ivanek, who was later replaced by Jeff Daniels.
- Scenes with Streep were filmed first; then the story of Julianne Moore's character was filmed; Nicole Kidman was the last to appear on set.
- A group of scenes with Meryl Streep was reshot: the final episodes featuring the aged Laura Brown were originally filmed with actress Betsy Blair, however, the director was dissatisfied with the actress's lack of resemblance to Julianne Moore (who played young Laura), and the scenes were reshot with Moore in makeup. The actress's makeup took six hours.
- Producer Harvey Weinstein did not want to disfigure actress Nicole Kidman with a prosthetic nose, however, Stephen Daldry managed to insist on the original makeup, which gave Kidman a resemblance to Virginia Woolf. A similar situation arose during the filming of 'The Brothers Grimm' (2005), but this time Weinstein remained adamant and did not allow director Terry Gilliam to adorn Matt Damon with a prosthetic nose.
- Nicole Kidman learned to write with her right hand specifically for the role of Virginia Woolf (the actress is left-handed, while Woolf was right-handed).
- The novel's author, Michael Cunningham, mentions two actresses in the book who may have been involved in filming near the flower stall: Meryl Streep and Vanessa Redgrave. Meryl Streep played Clarissa Vaughan, who is buying flowers at the stall, and Vanessa Redgrave played Clarissa Dalloway, the main character of Virginia Woolf’s novel 'Mrs. Dalloway' in the 1997 film of the same name.
- To achieve the effect of a room flooding with dirty water, where the character Mur is located, the soundstage was actually placed inside a tanker filled with river water.
- Before filming, Kidman read all of Virginia Woolf's published letters; according to the actress, this allowed her to gain a deeper understanding of the character.
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