Title: Handmaid's Tale
Date: 1990
Type: Drama / Sci-Fi
Rating: 3/5
Colour: Yes
Director: Volker Schlondorff
Producer:
Comment
In a post apocalyptic world, America is run by a totalitarian religious elite in which women have very defined roles. Only a few women are fertile and their role is to provide children to the elite. Natasha Richardson plays one of these girls who then starts to rebel.
Based on the novel by Margaret Atwood and a screenplay from Harold Pinter.
Actors
Natasha Richardson
Faye Dunaway
Victoria Tennant
Robert Duvall
Oscars
None
Novel
Margaret Atwood
Screenplay
Harold Pinter