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The handmaid's tale [videorecording (DVD)].

Shout Factory, 2017.

DVD HAN 1990 Sci-Fi

Canadian literature -- 20th century -- Film adaptations.

Shout select ; 15.

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (109 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Based on the novel by Margaret Atwood.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1990.

In English with optional English subtitles.

Cinecom Entertaiment Group presents with Master Partners ; produced by Daniel Wilson ; screenplay by Harold Pinter ; directed by Volker Schlöndorff.

Natasha Richardson, Aidan Quinn, Faye Dunaway and Robert Duvall as the Commander.

"With a 'cool eroticism, intelligence and intensity' (Playboy), this eerie futuristic thriller, based on Margaret Atwood's controversial and critically acclaimed best-selling novel, is filled with 'large themes and deep thoughts' (Roger Ebert). Boasting a phenomenal cast including Natasha Richardson (Nell) and Oscar® winners Faye Dunaway (Network) and Robert Duvall (Tender Mercies), this film 'dazzles with its ingenuity and shocks with its outrageousness' (WNCN Radio)! In the not-so-distant future, strong-willed and beautiful Kate (Richardson) possesses a precious commodity that most women have lost and most men want to control... fertility. into a brain-washing bootcamp that turns fertile women into surrogate mothers for social-elite men and their infertile wives, Kate thinks she's made out well when she's assigned to an eminent party leader (Duvall). But when she learns that he's sterile, she's faced with the impossible choice: produce him an heir or die!"--Container.

Science fiction films.

Dystopian films.

Thriller films.

Feminist films.

Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939- Handmaid's tale.

Schlöndorff, Volker.

Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008.

Richardson, Natasha.

Duvall, Robert.

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