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The Handmaid's Tale

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The Handmaid's Tale
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R,1hr 49min
Genres:
Sci-Fi,Drama
Release:
1990
Director:
Volker Schlöndorff
Distributor:
MGM
Starring:
Natasha Richardson, Robert Duvall, Faye Dunaway  ...more
Synopsis: 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 ... Full Synopsis
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Brian J. Dillard
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Although it's been criticized for being sterile and unfaithful to its source material, this cautionary tale is actually a pretty smart Orwell-ian update with a feminist twist and a lot of dead-on details. Screenwriter Harold Pinter and director Volker Schlondorff fill The Handmaid's Tale with all sorts of plausible fascist imagery and plenty of moments of paranoid dread. As Kate, the titular baby machine, ... Full Review
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