The Hours (2002)

Actors

• Christian Coulson (actor)
• Michael Culkin (actor)
• Michael Cunningham (actor)
• Jeff Daniels (actor)
• Stephen Dillane (actor)
• Ed Harris (actor)
• Johnathan Hodges (actor)
• George Loftus (actor)
• Charley Ramm (actor)
• John C. Reilly (actor)
• Jack Rovello (actor)
• Colin Stinton (actor)
• Eileen Atkins (actress)
• Linda Bassett (actress)
• Daniel Brocklebank (actor)

Genres

• Drama

Taglines:

Three Different Women. Each Living a Lie.
Always
Our lives. Our story.
The time to hide is over. The time to regret is gone. The time to live is now.

Quotes:

Vanessa Bell: Virginia.::Virginia Woolf: Leonard thinks it's the end of civilization: People who are invited at 4 and arrive at 2:30.::Vanessa Bell: Oh God.::Virginia Woolf: Barbarians.

Leonard Woolf: If I didn't know you better I'd call this ingratitude.::Virginia Woolf: I am ungrateful? You call ME ungrateful? My life has been stolen from me. I'm living in a town I have no wish to live in... I'm living a life I have no wish to live... How did this happen?

Virginia Woolf: I'm dying in this town.::Leonard Woolf: If you were thinking clearly, Virginia, you would recall it was London that brought you low.::Virginia Woolf: If I were thinking clearly? If I were thinking clearly?::Leonard Woolf: We brought you to Richmond to give you peace.::Virginia Woolf: If I were thinking clearly, Leonard, I would tell you that I wrestle alone in the dark, in the deep dark, and that only I can know. Only I can understand my condition. You live with the threat, you tell me you live with the threat of my extinction. Leonard, I live with it too.

Virginia Woolf: This is my right; it is the right of every human being. I choose not the suffocating anesthetic of the suburbs, but the violent jolt of the Capital, that is my choice. The meanest patient, yes, even the very lowest is allowed some say in the matter of her own prescription. Thereby she defines her humanity. I wish, for your sake, Leonard, I could be happy in this quietness. [pause] But if it is a choice between Richmond and death, I choose death.

Clarissa Vaughn: All right Richard, do me one simple favor. Come. Come sit.::Richard Brown: I don't think I can make it to the party, Clarissa.::Clarissa Vaughn: You don't have to go to the party, you don't have to go to the ceremony, you don't have to do anything you don't want to do. You can do as you like.::Richard Brown: But I still have to face the hours, don't I? I mean, the hours after the party, and the hours after that...::Clarissa Vaughn: You do have good days still. You know you do.::Richard Brown: Not really. I mean, it's kind of you to say so, but it's not really true.

Virginia Woolf: You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.

Clarissa Vaughn: That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.

Virginia Woolf: Dear Leonard. To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard, always the years between us, always the years. Always the love. Always the hours.

Clarissa Vaughn: I don't know what's happening to me. I seemed to be unraveling.

Virginia Woolf: Leonard, I believe I may have a first sentence.