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Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth McGovern, Victoria Tennant
Directed By: Volker Schlöndorff
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792851554
Format: Anamorphic
ISBN: 0792851552
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2001-12-11
Running Time: 109
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1990-03-09
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Editorial Reviews:
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With "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(r) 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. Forced into a brain-washing boot camp 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 partyleader (Duvall). But when she learns that he's sterile, she's faced with the impossible choice: produce him an heir or die! *Dunaway: Actress, Network (1976); Duvall: Actor, Tender Mercies (1983)
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Summary: Thought-provoking,disturbing.
Comment: This movie grips you and doesn't let go. Very disturbing.....It is a movie about a society in the future where infertility is the norm and fertility is a prized possession which is used to provide offspring to the members of an elite group of people/government. Women who are fertile are used as "handmaids" or as vessels to provide the offspring....once their babies are born, they are taken from them and given to the elite members of society. Haunting!!
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Summary: Great Story - Fabulous Storyline
Comment: I heard some friends talking about some other movie that reminded me of something I saw 18 years ago . . . on PBS no less. The "Handmaid's Tale" - it's rather "1984" meets "Code 46." And what better cast could you ask for - Robert Duvall, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn (very young looking!) - it's totally bizarre how a failed country or maybe race attempts to turn itself around with ridiculous freedom robbing rules and procedures . . . Hats off to all Bureaucrats! Definately worth a watch.
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Summary: The Handmaid's Tale
Comment: Margaret Atwood's prophetic novel-- so realistic it's scary. An example of what could happen if the religious right were turned loose with power.
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Summary: The book was better, but not a bad movie
Comment: I would totally recommend reading the book that this movie is based on. It was a wonderful book and I read it once as a teenager and once again as an adult. The movie captures the book OK, about average for movies based on books. My mother watched it with me and said it was weird but good enough to watch.
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Summary: How do you survive when you do not own yourself?
Comment: "Pollution has caused sterility in 99% of the women. A war has overturned the government, and fertile women are deprived of their reproductive rights. Owned by the wives of the ruling men, they are forced to become "handmaids". How do you survive when all women are treated as chattel, segregated as a wife or a whore... and you have been classed as the latter?"
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