Where to watch The Hours (2002)
The Hours is available to stream in US on Hoopla, Kanopy and Pluto TV. It can also be rented or bought from AppleTV and Amazon.
Three women in different eras and places struggle with loneliness, social expectations, desire, and the search for a more meaningful life. Their experiences are connected through a celebrated novel, gradually revealing emotional parallels as each confronts difficult choices and the weight of everyday obligations.
Cast: Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Stephen Dillane, Jack Rovello, Ed Harris, Miranda Richardson, John C. Reilly, Allison Janney, George Loftus, Charley Ramm, Sophie Wyburd
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Trivia & production notes
- Philip Glass's score won the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music and received nominations for the Academy Award and Golden Globe in the original score category.
- The film opened in limited release on Christmas Day 2002 with just eleven screens, earning roughly $1 million in its first two weeks before expanding to over 1,000 theaters by mid-February.
- The Hours earned $108.8 million worldwide against a $25 million budget, making it the 47th highest-grossing film of 2002.
- Richard Schickel of Time criticized Nicole Kidman's prosthetic nose used to resemble Virginia Woolf as distracting and faulted the film for reducing Woolf to a simplistic character.
- Stephen Holden of The New York Times praised Philip Glass's minimalist score as serving ideal connective tissue for a film that crosses temporal barriers.
- Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle argued the film achieved something rare by being fuller and deeper than the source novel it adapted.
- Peter Bradshaw noted the film's formal daring lay partly in the absence of narrative connection between the three central women until the final reel.
- In 2025, The Hours was voted into The New York Times's "Readers' Choice" edition of the 100 best movies of the 21st century, finishing at number 300.
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