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DISCLAIMER* - Apple TV+ Series, Oct 11, Cate Blanchett, Kevin Kline, Written/Directed by Alfonso Cuarón


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DISCLAIMER* is a gripping psychological thriller in seven chapters, starring Academy Award winners Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline. Written and directed by five-time Academy Award winner Alfonso Cuarón, DISCLAIMER* is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Renée Knight.

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Acclaimed journalist Catherine Ravenscroft (Blanchett) built her reputation revealing the misdeeds and transgressions of others. When she receives a novel from an unknown author, she is horrified to realize she is now the main character in a story that exposes her darkest secrets.

As Catherine races to uncover the writer’s true identity, she is forced to confront her past before it destroys both her own life and her relationships with her husband Robert (Sacha Baron Cohen) and their son Nicholas (Kodi Smit-McPhee). The ensemble cast includes Lesley Manville, Louis Partridge, Leila George, Hoyeon, and features Indira Varma as the narrator.

Hailing from Apple Studios, DISCLAIMER* is co-produced by Esperanto Filmoj and Anonymous Content. Cuarón executive produces for Esperanto Filmoj alongside Gabriela Rodriguez. In addition to starring, Blanchett serves as executive producer. David Levine and the late Steve Golin executive produce for Anonymous Content. Academy Award winner Emmanuel Lubezki, Donald Sabourin and Carlos Morales also executive produce. Renée Knight serves as co-executive producer. Lubezki and Academy Award nominee Bruno Delbonnel serve as directors of photography. The score is composed by multiple Academy and GRAMMY Award winner Finneas O’Connell.


 

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"Disclaimer" tells a story about a story, specifically the consequences of events that transpired between a 19-year-old British kid, Jonathan (Louis Partridge), and a young mother, Catherine (Leila George), on an Italian beach in the 2000s. The details of the encounter aren't immediately clear, but by the end, Jonathan is dead and Catherine never tells a soul what happened. Twenty years later, modern-day Catherine (Blanchett) becomes the obsession of Jonathan's father Stephen (Kline). The old man discovers what he believes to be evidence of Catherine's role in Jonathan's death, and is eager for revenge and catharsis after losing Jonathan and later, his grieving wife Nancy (Lesley Manville). With very little care for collateral damage, he lashes out in destructive, disturbing ways.

 

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Love Kevin Kline in, among other things I Love You to Death, which is way underrated. 1990 Best Picture - Driving Miss Daisy - nope. Best Actor - Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot - no arguing that one. That's one, arguably two, Oscars that should be on the Kline pile of win

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On 10/11/2024 at 7:24 PM, mr. sunshine said:

Love Kevin Kline in, among other things I Love You to Death, which is way underrated. 1990 Best Picture - Driving Miss Daisy - nope. Best Actor - Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot - no arguing that one. That's one, arguably two, Oscars that should be on the Kline pile of win

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6 hours ago, A-Tex Devil said:

Has Sasha Baron Cohen ever played such a down the middle “normal” role? I smell a twist with that character. Just through 1st episode. 

I heard he was great in The Spy which was another recent straight role. 

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leila george is obviously extremely sexy in this show when she's not being a vindictive sociopath. 

i have enjoyed it for the most part. 

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i wonder if they are going to connect nicholas becoming such a fuck up loser to some sort of trauma of watching his mom riding some random's face.

 

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Man, that turned really bad for that dude QUICKLY. One second he's smashing a smoking hot blonde in the bathroom, and the next he's drowning in the ocean. While she lets it happen. After he just saved her son's life. Fucked up scene and hard to watch.

 

Agree.  She could have chosen me though and I would have gone ahead to Rome.  And maybe not drownded.

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Finally caught up on this show. Can’t decide if I like it. Feels like a mix of The Affair with Big Little Lies.

So far, the plot is a little boring to me. Married woman and teenager have affair, teenager drowns, and years later the teenager’s parents seek vengeance by publishing a book to torment the adulteress. Nothing about that is all that groundbreaking, but we still have 3 episodes to go, so we shall see.

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My biggest issue is how so many of the finer details of the Italy trip are known so well by the parents.  For instance - that she let the kid die via silence.   It makes me wonder if the flashbacks are actually an unreliable narrator.  The version the parents think happened.   
 

And they keep hammering the point that the Katherine character dies in the book.  That I am sure will mean something at some point. 

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My biggest issue is how so many of the finer details of the Italy trip are known so well by the parents.  For instance - that she let the kid die via silence.   It makes me wonder if the flashbacks are actually an unreliable narrator.  The version the parents think happened.   
 
And they keep hammering the point that the Katherine character dies in the book.  That I am sure will mean something at some point. 

“I bet he ate her pussy, like all the time.”
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That’s exactly what I assume the story is. Nancy’s version of events that she used to grieve Jonathan. 

I assume that as well, but Nancy was consumed by grief and bitterness, so watching a story entirely through that lens is underwhelming. I’m hoping there will be some kind of twist or reveal similar to Atonement, where we realize that the story we’ve been fed is deliberately untrue and there is a deeper explanation.
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