The Hours

Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore star in this meditative drama about famed author Virginia Woolf, who is beginning work on her literary masterpiece "Mrs. Dalloway" even as she battles a crippling depression; meanwhile a pair of similarly desperate women in other eras deal with crises of their own by reading Woolf's seminal work. Ed Harris costars in this acclaimed adaptation directed by Stephen Daldry ("Billy Elliott"), based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.