The Hours

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by David Hare

Type

Screenplays

Subject

One Film > The Hours

Keywords

Stephen Daldry, movie script, David Hare

Publishing date

2003

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Collection

Classic Screenplays

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 122 pages
5 x 8 inches (13 x 20 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-571-21476-2
978-0-571-21476-1

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Book Presentation:
The Hours is David Hare’s screen adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. In Richmond, England in 1923, Virginia Woolf is setting out to write the first words of her new book. In Los Angeles in 1951, a housewife, Laura Brown, is contemplating suicide. And in present-day New York, a hostess, Clarissa Vaughan, is planning a party for her friends. In extraordinary and ingenious ways, the film shows how a single day – and the novel Mrs Dalloway – inextricably link the lives of three very different women.

About the Author:
David Hare has written over thirty stage plays and thirty screenplays for film and television. The plays include Plenty, Pravda (with Howard Brenton), The Secret Rapture, Racing Demon, Skylight, Amy’s View, The Blue Room, Via Dolorosa, Stuff Happens, The Absence of War, The Judas Kiss, The Red Barn, The Moderate Soprano, I’m Not Running and Beat the Devil. For cinema, he has written The Hours, The Reader, Damage, Denial, Wetherby and The White Crow among others, while his television…

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