Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Title:

The Hours / [presented by] Paramount Pictures and Miramax Films ; produced by Scott Rudin, Robert Fox ; screenplay by David Hare ; directed by Stephen Daldry.

Edition:

Special collector's ed.

Publisher, Date:

Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment, 2003.

Description:

1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

plastic

4 3/4 in.

digital

video file

DVD video

Summary:

In 1929, Virginia Woolf is starting to write her novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway, ' under the care of doctors and family. In 1951, Laura Brown is planning for her husband's birthday, but is preoccupied with reading Woolf's novel. In 2001, Clarrisa Vaughn is planning an award party for her friend, an author dying of AIDS. Taking place over one day, all three stories are interconnected with the novel: one is writing it, one is reading it, and one is living it.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: PG-13, for mature thematic elements, some disturbing images and brief language.

Series:

Widescreen collection

Widescreen DVD collection.

Subjects:

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Influence -- Drama.

Cunningham, Michael, 1952- -- Film adaptations.

Women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

Women -- California -- Los Angeles -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Genre:

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Fiction films.

Feature films.

Other Author:

Rudin, Scott, 1958-

Fox, Robert, 1952-

Hare, David, 1947-

Daldry, Stephen.

Streep, Meryl.

Moore, Julianne.

Kidman, Nicole, 1967-

Harris, Ed, 1950-

Collette, Toni.

Danes, Claire, 1979-

Daniels, Jeff, 1955-

Dillane, Stephen, 1956-

Janney, Allison.

Reilly, John C., 1965-

Richardson, Miranda.

McGarvey, Seamus, 1967-

Boyle, Peter, 1946-

Glass, Philip.

Roth, Ann, 1931-

Djurkovic, Maria.

Cunningham, Michael, 1952- Hours.

Paramount Pictures Corporation.

Miramax Films.

Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)

Notes:

Based on the book by Michael Cunningham.

Previously release as motion picture in 2002.

Special features: Commentary by Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore and Nicole Kidman; commentary by directorStephen Daldry and novelist Michael Cunningham; introduction by the filmmakers; 4 featurettes: "Three women", "The mind and times of Virginia Woolf", "The music of The hours", "The Lives of Mrs. Dalloway"; theatrical trailer.

Director of photography, Seamus McGarvey ; editor, Peter Boyle ; music, Philip Glass ; costume designer, Ann Roth ; production designer, Maria Djurkovic.

Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Toni Collette, Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels, Stephen Dillane, Allison Janney, John C. Reilly, Miranda Richardson.

DVD; NTSC; region 1; Dolby surround, widescreen version.

For private home use only.

In English (5.0 surround and Dolby surround) and French with optional English subtitles. Closed-captioned.

Academy Awards, 2003: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Nicole Kidman) -- Golden Globe, 2003: Best Motion Picture--Drama; Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture--Drama (Nicole Kidman)

Contents:

Three women -- The mind and times of Virginia Woolf -- The music of the hours -- The lives of Mrs. Dalloway.

ISBN:

0792187121

9780792187127

0792192427

9780792192428

0792189744

9780792189749

0792192397

9780792192398

0792192435

9780792192435

0792189752

9780792189756

Publisher Number:

339904

59191821000

Other Number:

51940682

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

920416

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Hours