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TV News: Miniseries “Olive Kitteridge” Debuts Later This Year on HBO

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  • January 9, 2014

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Looks like I have yet another novel to add to my repertoire. HBO takes the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Elizabeth Strout and turns it into a mini-series of epic proportions. Frances McDormand stars as the lead, Olive Kitteridge, and with supporting actors such as Bill Murray (Hello! Bill Murray!), it’s sure to be a hit. Keep reading for more information and be sure to tune in to Olive Kitteridge when it premieres on HBO later this year.

 

FRANCES MCDORMAND AND RICHARD JENKINS STAR IN

OLIVE KITTERIDGE, A FILM BY LISA CHOLODENKO;

AN HBO MINISERIES PRESENTATION OF A PLAYTONE PRODUCTION

IN ASSOCIATION WITH AS IS;

BASED ON ELIZABETH STROUT’S PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING NOVEL;

WRITTEN BY JANE ANDERSON;

TOM HANKS, GARY GOETZMAN, FRANCES MCDORMAND AND

JANE ANDERSON EXECUTIVE PRODUCE;

BILL MURRAY, JOHN GALLAGHER, JR., PETER MULLAN,

ROSEMARIE DEWITT AND ZOE KAZAN CO-STAR

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Miniseries Debuts On HBO Later This Year

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            LOS ANGELES, Jan. 9, 2014 – Academy Award® winner Frances McDormand (“Fargo,” “North Country”) and Academy Award® nominee Richard Jenkins (“The Visitor,” HBO’s “Six Feet Under”) star in the HBO Miniseries drama OLIVE KITTERIDGE, a film by Academy Award®-nominated director Lisa Cholodenko (“The Kids Are All Right,” “Laurel Canyon”). Based on Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name and written by Emmy®-winner Jane Anderson (HBO’s “The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom” and “Normal”), the miniseries recently completed production in Massachusetts for debut later this year on HBO.

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. Steven Shareshian co-executive produces.

The four-part drama 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 center. Richard Jenkins portrays Olive’s husband, Henry.

The supporting cast of OLIVE KITTERIDGE 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 Kitteridge family friend Bonnie.

 

Content courtesy of HBO ©2014 Home Box Office, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

 

Elle

Writer, mother, realist, cloud lover, daydreamer, dessert enthusiast, sweet tea addict, perfectionist, and lover of life and Christ, but not in that order. http://www.fanfiction.net/~vikingloverelle

Elle

Writer, mother, realist, cloud lover, daydreamer, dessert enthusiast, sweet tea addict, perfectionist, and lover of life and Christ, but not in that order. http://www.fanfiction.net/~vikingloverelle