Singapore – Academy Award® winner Frances McDormand (Fargo) and Academy Award® nominee Richard Jenkins (HBO’s Six Feet Under) star in Olive Kitteridge, a miniseries by Academy Award®-nominated director Lisa Cholodenko (The Kids Are All Right) based on Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name and written by Emmy®-winner Jane Anderson (HBO’s Normal).
Parts 1 and 2 of the four-part HBO Original miniseries will premiere back to back this 3 November from 10pm on HBO (StarHub TV Ch 601), within 24 hours of their U.S. debut. The final two parts will air the next day, 4 November from 10pm on HBO. All four parts will be released on HBO On Demand (StarHub TV Ch 602) from Monday, 10 November.
Olive Kitteridge
Olive Kitteridge tells the poignantly sweet, acerbically funny and devastatingly tragic story of a seemingly placid New England town wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, told through the lens of Olive (Frances McDormand), whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and staunch moral centre. Jenkins portrays Olive’s husband, Henry.
The story, which spans 25 years over the four parts, focuses on Olive, a middle-school math teacher, and her relationships with Henry, the good-hearted town pharmacist, their son Christopher, who chafes at his mother’s parenting style, and other denizens of their community.
The supporting cast features Golden Globe® winner Bill Murray (Lost in Translation) as Jack Kennison, a widower befriended by Olive; John Gallagher, Jr. (HBO’s The Newsroom) as Christopher, Olive and Henry’s son; Emmy® nominee Peter Mullan (Top of the Lake) as Jim O’Casey, a fellow teacher at Olive’s school; Rosemarie DeWitt (Mad Men) as Rachel Coulson, a shut-in who is one of Henry’s customers at the pharmacy; Zoe Kazan (Ruby Sparks) as Denise Thibodeau, who works at the pharmacy; and Ann Dowd (Side Effects) as Bonnie, a Kitteridge family friend.
Olive Kitteridge co-stars Broadway’s Cory Michael Smith (Breakfast at Tiffany’s) as Kevin Coulson, Olive’s former student; Jesse Plemons (Breaking Bad) as Jerry McCarthy, Henry’s delivery boy; Brady Corbet (Martha Marcy May Marlene) as Henry Thibodeau, Denise’s first husband; Audrey Marie Anderson (The Unit) as Ann, Christopher Kitteridge’s second wife; Patricia Kalember (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) as Joyce, Christopher’s mother-in-law; and Maryann Urbano (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) as Mrs. Kennison, Jack’s wife.
Olive Kitteridge
The behind-the-scenes team includes Golden Globe-nominated composer Carter Burwell (Where the Wild Things Are), editor Jeffrey M. Werner, A.C.E. (The Kids Are All Right), Emmy®-nominated director of photography Frederick Elmes, ASC (HBO’s In the Gloaming), production designer Julie Berghoff (The Kids Are All Right), costume designer Jenny Eagan (True Grit) and Emmy®-winning casting director Laura Rosenthal, CSA (HBO’s Mildred Pierce).
An HBO miniseries presentation of a Playtone production in association with As Is, Olive Kitteridge is executive produced by Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, Frances McDormand and Jane Anderson, and marks Hanks and Goeztman’s fifth miniseries with HBO under the Playtone banner, following the Emmy® winners The Pacific, John Adams, Band of Brothers and From the Earth to the Moon. Other HBO/Playtone collaborations include the Emmy®-winning HBO Films presentation Game Change, the series Big Love and a number of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame specials which Steven Shareshian co-executive produced.
