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The Handmaid's Tale (1990)
Released By: HBO Video   Rating: R   In Theaters: N/A
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Studio: HBO Video
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Volker Schlondorff
Language: English
Official Website: N/A
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Cast: Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth McGovern, Faye Dunaway, Natasha Richardson, Robert Duvall, Victoria Tennant
Published ID: 1080
UPC: 027616869296,
Plot: In this dystopian fable, a librarian wife and mother becomes the childbearing pawn of a Christian theocracy. In the near future, as war rages across the fictional North American Republic of Gilead and pollution has rendered 99 percent of the female population sterile, Kate (Natasha Richardson) sees her husband killed and her daughter kidnapped while trying to escape across the border. Kate herself is transformed into a handmaid -- a surrogate mother for one of the privileged but barren couples who run the country's fundamentalist regime. Although she resists being indoctrinated into the bizarre cult of the handmaids, which mixes Old Testament orthodoxy and misogynist cant with 12-step gospel and ritualized violence, Kate soon finds herself ensconced at the home of the Commander (Robert Duvall) and his frosty wife, Serena Joy (Faye Dunaway). Forced to lie between Serena Joy's legs and be penetrated impersonally each month by the Commander, Kate longs for her vanished earlier life; she soon learns that since many of the nation's powerful men are as sterile as their wives, she may have to risk the punishment for fornication -- death by hanging -- in order to sleep with another man who can provide her with the pregnancy that has become her sole raison d’être. When that other man turns out to be Nick (Aidan Quinn), the Commander's handsome, sympathetic driver, Kate grows attached to him -- and eventually pregnant with his child. Only the mysterious rebel affiliations of her fellow handmaid, Ofglen (Blanche Baker), seem to offer any chance of giving her unborn child a life of freedom -- or finding the daughter she already lost. Loosely adapted by Harold Pinter from the novel by Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale also features Elizabeth McGovern in a small but pivotal role as Moira, a gender traitor who befriends Kate at the handmaids' reprogramming center. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide
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Well done
Added 9/23/2009

I received the DVD 9/14/09, the top edge of DVD box was damaged, but that was all. I applaud your patience in sending me the product after my mistake in address. Thank you and I would definitely order from them again.
0 out of 1 people found this helpful.
Politically Correct Slander
Added 7/25/2009

This novel is not a work of genius designed to make you think. It is a politically correct straw man designed to indoctrinate you. Even Hitler's Germany produced no such culture as Gilead; indeed, such a society is not envisioned by ANY conservative or Christian group - it's all made up. Ask yourself - would ANYONE really act this way? A "Christian" slave state? Come on, America was FOUNDED by conservative Christians. They don't want a world like this any more than atheists, secularists, or Jews do. This novel is just a cover for anti-religious slander. The author's intention is to attack a certain religion - it is hate literature. Here in Canada we are taught to respect other people's religions - everyone should respect others, yes, even aggressive feminists like the author should. Handmaid's Tale is an ugly, offensive work of bigotry, the kind of thing Nicholas II and Hitler produced about the Jews before targeting them. Fairminded college profs will expose it, not require it.
0 out of 3 people found this helpful.
Excellent Movie!!
Added 5/3/2009

This movie is definitely prophetic. I find its plot to be very probable. As a woman, this was an eye opener. Great movie!
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
Horrible Seller
Added 4/21/2009

I bought the DVD before the actress died. Apparently the DVD became out of print and in demand. Suddenly, the seller didnt have the item. Sounds like a liar to me.
0 out of 2 people found this helpful.
VHS Movie
Added 4/19/2009

Very pleased with the video I received call The Handmaids Tale. I watched it with pleasure and it had no glitches whatsover. I would definately buy from this seller again!
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
Well done
Added 9/23/2009

I received the DVD 9/14/09, the top edge of DVD box was damaged, but that was all. I applaud your patience in sending me the product after my mistake in address. Thank you and I would definitely order from them again.
0 out of 1 people found this helpful.
Politically Correct Slander
Added 7/25/2009

This novel is not a work of genius designed to make you think. It is a politically correct straw man designed to indoctrinate you. Even Hitler's Germany produced no such culture as Gilead; indeed, such a society is not envisioned by ANY conservative or Christian group - it's all made up. Ask yourself - would ANYONE really act this way? A "Christian" slave state? Come on, America was FOUNDED by conservative Christians. They don't want a world like this any more than atheists, secularists, or Jews do. This novel is just a cover for anti-religious slander. The author's intention is to attack a certain religion - it is hate literature. Here in Canada we are taught to respect other people's religions - everyone should respect others, yes, even aggressive feminists like the author should. Handmaid's Tale is an ugly, offensive work of bigotry, the kind of thing Nicholas II and Hitler produced about the Jews before targeting them. Fairminded college profs will expose it, not require it.
0 out of 3 people found this helpful.
Excellent Movie!!
Added 5/3/2009

This movie is definitely prophetic. I find its plot to be very probable. As a woman, this was an eye opener. Great movie!
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
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