The Hours and Times is a 1991 drama film written and directed by Christopher Münch.

Starring David Angus and Ian Hart, it is a fictionalized account of what might have happened during a real holiday taken by John Lennon and The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein in 1963.

John asks Brian about gay sex and says that he thinks about it sometimes, but is put off by the thought that it would be painful.

They play cards and Brian tells John he is surprised that he brought that up, that he feels awkward about it, that the situation between them is hopeless.

John and Brian go to a gay bar and meet a Spanish man named Quinones.

Brian says he was sent there by his mother a couple of years previously following an incident where he had been robbed and blackmailed by a man he met for sex.

Source[1] Director Christopher Münch originally saw The Hours and Times as a "DIY exercise", not expecting the film to secure any distribution.

The movie was released in 1992 in the US (1991 in Canada), after premiering at Toronto, Berlin, Sundance and New Directors.

[3] Oscilloscope Labs re-released a restoration of the film in 2019,[4] which was screened in Sundance that year.

[5] The Hours and Times won the Special Jury Recognition award at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival.