WHO: Cast attendees include: Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman,
               Julianne Moore, Claire Danes, Stephen Dillane, Allison
               Janney, Miranda Richardson

                    Filmmaker attendees include:  Director Stephen Daldry,
                    Novelist Michael Cunningham                    Celebrity attendees include: Heath Ledger, Naomi Watts, Mena
                    Suvari, Thora Birch, Megan Mullally, Don Cheadle, Harry Hamlin,
                    Lisa Rinna, Daryl Hannah, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tracey Ullman,
                    Goran Visjnic, Martin Landau, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Forster,
                    Eva Marie Saint, Catherine O'Hara, Bruce Davison, Fionnula Flanagan
                    ... and more to follow
    WHEN:           WEDNESDAY, December 18, 2002 -- PROMPTLY AT 7:30pm
                    Arrivals begin at 6:30pm

    WHERE:          Mann's National Theater
                    10925 Lindbrook Avenue
                    Westwood Village

ABOUT "The Hours"

"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place; all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman), in a suburb of London in the early 1920's, is battling insanity as she begins to write her first great novel, Mrs. Dalloway. Laura Brown (Julianne Moore), a wife and mother in Los Angeles at the end of World War II, is reading Mrs. Dalloway, and finding it so revelatory that she begins to consider making a devastating change in her life. Clarissa Vaughan (Meryl Streep), a contemporary version of Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, lives in New York City today, and is in love with her friend Richard (Ed Harris), a brilliant poet who is dying of AIDS. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.
     Release Date:    December 27, 2002 (limited)
     Directed by:     Stephen Daldry
     Produced by:     Scott Rudin  Robert Fox
     Starring:        Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris,
                      Toni Collette, Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels, Stephen
                      Dillane, Allison Janney, John C. Reilly,
                      Miranda Richardson
     Written by:      David Hare
     MPAA Rating:     This film is rated PG-13 for mature thematic elements,
                      some disturbing images and brief language

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