Hours, The (2002) - (Movie Clip) She Would Buy The Flowers Herself

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.

Hours, The (2002) -- (Movie Clip) Sort Of Like Black Fire

Continuing his complex shifts of time and place, director Stephen Daldry gives us Meryl Streep as Clarissa in Manhattan buying flowers (from Eileen Atkins) for a ceremony honoring her AIDS-stricken friend and ex-lover, novelist Richard (Ed Harris), who lives in the famous Triangle Buiiding, with visits to Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf, and Julianne Moore as mom Laura, in 1951 LA, whose son, though we don’t know it yet, is the same Richard, in The Hours, 2002.