Mrs. Dalloway

Daldry and Hare's seductive, brilliant movie takes place during a day in the lives of three women in three different eras: the writer Virginia Woolf in 1923; the unhappy California housewife Laura Brown (Julianne Moore), who is reading "Mrs. Dalloway" in 1951, and a contemporary New York book editor named Clarissa Vaughn (Meryl Streep) -- nicknamed Mrs. Dalloway -- who is preparing to throw a party for her ex-lover, a poet dying of AIDS.

Behind The Scenes: Mrs. Dalloway's Close-Up 2007

"He told me, 'I inherited it from Virginia Woolf, and now you must go off and alter it as freely as I adapted" Mrs. Dalloway "'."

Behind The Scenes: Mrs. Dalloway's Close-Up 2007

Her devoted husband, Leonard (a superb Stephen Dillane), concerned about her mental instability, has confined her to the London suburb of Richmond, where she is struggling to write "Mrs. Dalloway," a novel that takes place in 24 hours.

Behind The Scenes: Mrs. Dalloway's Close-Up 2007

Back in the day when you had to rent a big set of cassette tapes to hear an unabridged book, I rented "Mrs. Dalloway" for a long car trip only to find that I simply couldn't understand it on tape.

Listening to books. Ann Althouse 2005

The movie takes a cue from Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway," where the entire film occurs on one day, V-Day.

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The movie takes a cue from Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway," where the entire film occurs on one day, V-Day.

ABC News: ABCNews 2010

The movie takes a cue from Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway," where the entire film occurs on one day, V-Day.

ABC News: ABCNews 2010

The movie takes a cue from Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway," where the entire film occurs on one day, V-Day.

ABC News: ABCNews 2010

The movie takes a cue from Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway," where the entire film occurs on one day, V-Day.

ABC News: ABCNews 2010

The movie takes a cue from Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway," where the entire film occurs on one day, V-Day.

ABC News: ABCNews 2010