Series Details:
Also known as | Augustus |
Based on | Disclaimer by Renée Knight |
Country | United States, Australia, Mexico |
Language | English, Italian |
Genre | Psychological, Thriller, Drama, Mystery |
Season | 1 |
Episodes | 7 |
Release date | October 11, 2024 – November 8, 2024 |
Running time | 45min-55min |
Age rating | TV-MA |
Starring | Cate Blanchett Kevin Kline Sacha Baron Cohen Lesley Manville Louis Partridge Leila George Indira Varma Kodi Smit-McPhee |
Directed by | Alfonso Cuarón |
Written by | Alfonso Cuarón |
Executive producers | Alfonso Cuarón Cate Blanchett Gabriela Rodríguez David Levine Steve Golin Emmanuel Lubezki Donald Sabourin Carlos Morales |
Cinematography by | Emmanuel Lubezki Bruno Delbonnel |
Edited by | Alfonso Cuarón Adam Gough |
Music by | Finneas O’Connell |
Production locations | Italy, London, South Africa, Mexico, Australia |
Production Company | Esperanto Filmoj Anonymous Content Apple Studios |
Original Network | Apple TV+ |
Cast & Character:
Main
- Cate Blanchett as Catherine Ravenscroft, an award-winning journalist and documentarian.
- Leila George as young Catherine Ravenscroft
- Kevin Kline as Stephen Brigstocke, a retired private school teacher who harbors a grudge against Catherine.
- Sacha Baron Cohen as Robert Ravenscroft, Catherine’s husband, who runs a corrupt non-profit.
- Adam El Hagar as young Robert Ravenscroft
- Lesley Manville as Nancy Brigstocke, Stephen’s late wife.
- Louis Partridge as Jonathan Brigstocke, Stephen and Nancy’s deceased son.
- Indira Varma as the Narrator
- Kodi Smit-McPhee as Nicholas Ravenscroft, Catherine and Robert’s aimless, drug-addled son.
Guest
- Art Malik as Justin, Stephen’s publisher and former colleague
- Liv Hill as Sasha, Jonathan’s girlfriend
- Christiane Amanpour as herself
- HoYeon as Jisoo Kim, Catherine’s assistant
- Michael Spicer as Simon, Catherine’s colleague
- Gemma Jones as Helen, Catherine’s mother who suffers from dementia
- Youssef Kerkour as Richard Perkins
Storyline:
Blanchett plays Catherine Ravenscroft, a successful and respected television documentary journalist whose work has been built on revealing the concealed transgressions of long-respected institutions. When an intriguing novel written by a widower, played by Kline, appears on her bedside table, she is horrified to realize she is a key character in a story that she had hoped was long buried in the past, that reveals her darkest secret that she thought was hers alone.
About Series:
Disclaimer (stylized as Disclaimer*) is a psychological thriller miniseries written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón, based on the 2015 novel of the same name by Renée Knight. It stars Cate Blanchett as a journalist and documentarian. The supporting cast includes Kevin Kline, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Louis Partridge, and Lesley Manville.
It was announced in December 2021. Filming for the series had begun by June 2022 in Archway, London; Mexico; and Sydney and finished production in February 2023. Some additional pickup scenes were filmed in South Africa in March and April 2023.
Disclaimer was screened at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on August 29, 2024, was screened at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, in the Primetime program, and it was screened at the 2024 BFI London Film Festival on October 10, as a special event.
It premiered on October 11, 2024, on Apple TV+, with the first two episodes available immediately and then two on October 18, 2024, then one a week, until November 8, 2024.
Episodes:
Episode | Title | Release date | Running title | Plot |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | I | October 11, 2024 | 45min | To my son, Jonathan. |
2 | II | October 11, 2024 | 46mon | Do you ever think of me? |
3 | III | October 18, 2024 | 48min | Destiny doesn’t ask permission. |
4 | IV | October 18, 2024 | 51min | I wanted him to die. |
5 | V | October 25, 2024 | 55min | I had to tell the world the truth. |
6 | VI | November 1, 2024 | 43min | Only death is irrevocable. |
7 | VII | November 8, 2024 | 56min | It’s time for my voice to be heard. |