The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale

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. Forced 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!

Production Year: 
1990
Released: 
Tue, 12/11/2001
Run Time Minutes: 
109
Rating: 
R
Genres: 
Science-Fiction
Genres: 
Drama
Trailer: 
No
Format Aspect Ratio: 
1.85-Wide Screen
Resolution: 
480x720 LowRez
More Information: 
HD-2
Audio Language: 
English
Audio Format: 
Dolby Digital
Audio Channels: 
2-Channel Stereo
Actors: 
Natasha Richardson - Kate
Actors: 
Faye Dunaway - Serena Joy
Actors: 
Aidan Quinn - Nick
Actors: 
Elizabeth McGovern - Moira
Actors: 
Victoria Tennant - Aunt Lydia
Actors: 
Robert Duvall - Commander
Actors: 
Blanche Baker - Ofglen
Actors: 
Traci Lind - Janine
Actors: 
Zoey Wilson - Aunt Helena
Actors: 
Kathryn Doby - Aunt Elizabeth
Actors: 
Raynor Scheine - Luke
Actors: 
Lucia Hartpeng - Cora
Actors: 
Karma Ibsen Riley - Aunt Sara
Actors: 
Lucile McIntyre - Rita
Actors: 
Gary Bullock - Officer on bus
Actors: 
Allison Holmes - June
Actors: 
J. Michael Hunter - Preacher
Actors: 
Robert D. Raiford - Dick
Actors: 
Mirjam Bohnet - Alma
Actors: 
Julian Bell - TV Announcer
Actors: 
David Barnes - Guard
Actors: 
James A. Carleo III - Angel at desk
Actors: 
Jim Grimshaw - Eye in van
Actors: 
Ival Migel - Eye
Actors: 
Doris Boggs - Aunt
Actors: 
Annemarie Fenske - Aunt
Actors: 
Linda Pierce - Another wife
Actors: 
Nina Lynn Blanton - Third wife
Actors: 
Rhesa Reagan Stone - Mrs. Warren
Actors: 
Sara Seidman - Handmaid
Actors: 
Muse Watson - Guardian
Actors: 
Janell McLeod - Martha
Actors: 
Elke Ritschel - Hostess
Actors: 
Jane Learned - Nun
Actors: 
Randell Haynes - Condemned man
Actors: 
Rhonda Bond - Black woman
Actors: 
Mil Nicholson - Wardress
Actors: 
Robert Pentz - Guard #1
Actors: 
Tom McGovern - Guard #2
Actors: 
Danny Simpkins - Waiter
Actors: 
James Martin Jr. - Steve
Actors: 
Stefanie J. Chen - Ofglen #2
Actors: 
Ed Grady - Old man
Actors: 
Molly Sandick - Baby
Actors: 
Blair Struble - Jill
Actors: 
Bill Owen - TV Announcer
Actors: 
David Dukes - Doctor
Actors: 
Rob McGowan - Street worker