Watch this when
The Hours
Some days the hardest thing isn't the big event. It's getting through the ordinary hours.
Who it's for
The film follows three women across one day each: Virginia Woolf writing Mrs Dalloway in 1923, Laura Brown, a 1951 housewife, and Clarissa Vaughan, a 2001 New York editor caring for her friend Richard, who has AIDS.
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Feelings it meets
What it is
Stephen Daldry's adaptation of Michael Cunningham's novel, with a screenplay by David Hare, follows three women across a single day each, linked by Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway.
Where to find it
Rent or buy on major digital stores. Streaming availability rotates; check JustWatch.
Before you start
Heads up: Two deaths by suicide shown on screen.
Age: PG-13 (mature thematic elements, some disturbing images, brief language) (Common Sense age not verified)
I cannot tell why this heart languishes in silence. It is for small needs it never asks, or knows or remembers.Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, no. 37
