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The Handmaid's Tale is a 1990 dystopian film adapted from Canadian author Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel of the same name. Directed by Volker Schlöndorff, the film stars Natasha Richardson (Offred), Faye Dunaway (Serena Joy), Robert Duvall (The Commander), Aidan Quinn (Nick), and Elizabeth McGovern (Moira).
Mar 9, 1990 · The Handmaid's Tale: Directed by Volker Schlöndorff. With Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth McGovern. Under a dystopian religious tyranny, most women cannot conceive children.
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The Handmaid's Tale: Created by Bruce Miller. With Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Ann Dowd, O-T Fagbenle. Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.
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Following a coup, America is a country still at war with itself and ruled by a repressive Bible-inspired regime. Past pollution means only 1% of women can bear children, and anyone committing a crime and found to be a potential mother is put into an institution run by "Aunts" to be indoctrinated.
Mar 16, 1990 · The movie is a little vague about the conditions of the war and the society; this is not a political fable, like Orwell's 1984, but a feminist one. The purpose is to isolate, exaggerate and dramatize the ways in which women are the handmaidens of society in general and men in particular.