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Film adaptation

A film version of Mrs Dalloway was made in 1997 by Dutch film director Marleen Gorris. It was adapted from Woolf's novel by British actress Eileen Atkins and starred Vanessa Redgrave in the title role. The cast included Natascha McElhone, Lena Headey, Rupert Graves, Michael Kitchen, Alan Cox, Sarah Badel and Katie Carr. A more recent adaptation is The Hours, a film made in 2002 by Stephen Daldry starring Meryl Streep as Clarissa, Julianne Moore as Laura, and Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf. The screenplay for The Hours, written by David Hare, was based on the 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same title written by Michael Cunningham.