The Hours Blu-ray

British distributors 88 Films have detailed their upcoming Blu-ray release of Stephen Daldry's The Hours (2002), starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, and Toni Collette. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on May 25.

Description: Three generations of women, linked by one book. In 1923, Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman, Eyes Wide Shut) works on her novel Mrs. Dalloway while battling depression. In 1951, housewife Laura (Julianne Moore, Short Cuts) reads Woolf's book as she reckons with the emptiness of her suburban life; fifty years later, New Yorker Clarissa (Meryl Streep, Mamma Mia) nurses a dying friend, one who's nicknamed her Mrs. Dalloway.

Adapted by playwright David Hare from Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Hours was nominated for nine Academy Awards®, including Best Picture, and won for Kidman's transformative turn. A true classic about the power of art, and what it means.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

• High-definition transfer
• Audio commentary with director Stephen Daldry and novelist Michael Cunningham
• Audio commentary with actors Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep
• Audio commentary with film journalist Heather Wixson
• An Open Source for words and Images - An interview with writer David Hare
• Introduction by director Stephen Daldry
• The Lives of Mrs. Dalloway featurette
• The Mind and Times of Virginia Woolf featurette
• "The Music of The Hours" featurette
• "Three Women" featurette
• Image Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer
• Audio/Subtitles:
• 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
• 2.0 LPCM Stereo
• Optional English subtitles for the main feature
• REGION-B "LOCKED"