| Release Date | 18 December 2002 |
| Budget | $25,000,000 |
| US Box Office | $42,000,000 |
| Tagline | Three Different Women. Each Living a Lie. |
| Genre | Drama |
| Country | USAUK |
| Filming Locations | Biltmore Hotel - 1200 Anastasia Avenue, Coral Gables, Florida, USA |
| Language | English |
| Sound Mix | DTS, Dolby Digital |
| Color | Color |
| Film Type | Feature |
| Film Class | Psychological Drama, Feminist Film, Period Film |
| Mood | In a Minor Key |
| Themes | Tortured Genius, Suicide, Writer's Life, Faltering Friendships, Mental Illness, Midlife Crises, Mothers and Sons |
| Tones | Melancholy, Literate, Reflective, Elegiac, Downbeat, Intimate, Lyrical |
| Tags | Aids, Angst, Depression, Family Abandonment, Mental Breakdown, Mental Illness, Novel, Party, Reading, Regret, Self Determination, Suicide, Writer |
The Hours is a 2002 drama film directed by Stephen Daldry, and starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore and Ed Harris. The screenplay by David Hare is based on the 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same title by Michael Cunningham.