THE HOURS

Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Ed Harris

Paramount Pictures; Directed by Stephen Daldry

Rated PG-13; 120 minutes; 2002

The lives of two different women are affected across the time continuum via a Virginia Woolf novel. Clarissa Vaughn (Streep) is a book editor in modern day New York who is throwing a party for a friend of hers who is dying of AIDS. Laura Brown is a housewife in 1949 who is planning a party for her husband but cannot put down Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Both women are connected to the brilliant but depressed author who is shown during the writing of her famous tome. The three stories are interwoven to show how the modern woman is intimately connected to her past.

PROMOTION IDEA:

Co-sponsor this film with a women’s group on campus.