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‘The Hours’ at the American Centre
Award winning movie ‘The Hours' will be this week's 'Tuesday movie' screening at American Centre on April 25 at 6.30 pm. Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning theme and variation of Virginia Woolf's novel "Mrs. Dalloway" stars Nicole Kidman as the English author who committed suicide in 1941, and Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep as two of her literary and spiritual heirs.
Directed by Stephen Daldry the film stars Toni Collette, Ed Harris, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep.

'The Hours' nominated for nine academy awards including best motion picture and best director in 2002 and won Best Actress for Nicole Kidman - 2002 in addition to the Golden Globe award (Best Actress) The film was selected as top ten Movie of the Year - 2002 by American Film Institute. The Hours tells the story of three very different individuals who share the feeling that they have been living their lives for someone else.

Virginia Woolf (Kidman) lives in a suburb of London in the 1920's as she struggles to begin writing her first great novel, Mrs. Dalloway, while also attempting to overcome the mental illness that threatens to engulf her. Laura Brown (Moore), a young wife and mother in post-World War II Los Angeles, is just starting to read Mrs. Dalloway, and is so deeply affected by it that she begins to question the life she has chosen for herself. Then, in contemporary New York City, Clarissa Vaughan (Streep) is a modern-day mirror image of Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway as she plans what may be the final party for her friend and former lover, Richard (Harris), who is dying of AIDS.

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