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Hours, The (2002) - (Movie Clip) Open, The Best Thing To Do

With barely-recognizable Nicole Kidman as writer Virginia Woolf, in her Academy Award-winning performance, directed by Stephen Daldry, from David Hare’s script and Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize-wining novel, the shocking and factual opening of The Hours, 2002, also starring Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore.

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