FILM 2225: THE HOURS (2002)

TRIVIA: "The Hours" was the original working title of Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway".

Dan Brown tells his son Richie about falling in love with Laura, but John C. Reilly was actually telling Jack Rovello the story of "Jack and the Beanstalk" so the young actor would appear interested. The actual dialogue was dubbed in later.

Nicole Kidman loved wearing the prosthetic nose and wore it in private too, mainly as she was undergoing a divorce from Tom Cruise at the time and was attracting a lot of paparazzi interest. Much to her delight, by wearing her fake nose out and about, she found she could easily evade the paparazzi as they didn't recognize her.

Nicole Kidman learned to write with her right hand (Virginia Woolf was right-handed).

This movie was disqualified by the Academy for the Best Make-up Oscar because digital touch-ups were done on close-ups of Nicole Kidman to make the nose seem seamless.

Meryl Streep is actually mentioned in the original novel, "The Hours" written by Michael Cunningham, on which this movie was based.

Richard's (Ed Harris's) apartment was supposed to be a drafty New York City loftspace. In reality, the studio set in England was stiflingly hot, and Meryl Streep and Harris regularly had to have the sweat mopped off them.

Meryl Streep likes to prepare for her characters by selecting a piece of music to which she listens constantly. Director Stephen Daldry liked her selection so much (Jessye Normansinging "Four Last Songs" by Richard Strauss) that he included it in the scene where Louis Waters (Jeff Daniels) visits Clarissa's apartment.

Producer Scott Rudin had to do battle with Miramax Films head Harvey Weinstein over Nicole Kidman's prosthetic nose and Philip Glass' score, both of which Weinstein hated.

The spaceship fabric that can be seen in young Richard Brown's room is the same that one of the blankets is made from that older Richard wraps around him when he is ill.

Nicole Kidman was the first Australian actress to win a Best Actress Oscar, followed by Cate Blanchett, who won for her performance in Blue Jasmine (2013).

This movie takes place in 1923, 1941, 1951, and 2001.

The cast includes four Oscar winners: Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, and Allison Janney; and four Oscar nominees: Ed Harris, Toni Collette, John C. Reilly, and Miranda Richardson.

CAMEO: Michael Cunningham: Clarissa (Meryl Streep) walks past the author on her way to the flower shop.

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