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THE HANDMAID'S TALE (1990) NATASHA RICHARDSON - VHS

FAYE DUNAWAY, ROBERT DUVALL, ELIZABETH McGOVERN

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Item number:230394059901
Item location:Austin, Texas, United States
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Format: VHSRating: R
Leading Role: Faye DunawayRelease Date: Sep 05, 1990
Director: Volker SchlöndorffUPC: 026359043130
Format: NTSC (US, Canada)Condition: Good
Genre: DramaSub-Genre: --
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Based on Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel, THE HANDMAID'S TALE presents a harrowing vision of (as the film's opening legend reads) "the very near future." In Gilead, formerly the United States, a series of ecological disasters rendering most women infertile has been followed by a coup d'état by puritanical right-wing fundamentalists. Attempting to escape the increasingly unjust and brutal oligarchy, Kate (Natasha Richardson) is captured by border guards while her husband is killed and her daughter lost. Because she is fertile, Kate is sent for training as a handmaid, where she meets the defiant Moira (Elizabeth McGovern). Kate then becomes handmaid to the Commander (Robert Duvall) and is forced to enact a ceremony, based on the biblical story of Rachel, in which she lies between the Commander and his infertile wife, Serena Joy (Faye Dunaway), so he can impregnate her. The ceremony leaves Serena Joy angry, the Commander unfulfilled, and Kate humiliated, rebellious, and desperate for freedom. The splendid performance of the ensemble cast is highlighted by McGovern's wrenching turn as the disaffected "gender traitor." Celebrated playwright Harold Pinter supplies a stark, affecting screenplay for director Volker Schlöndorff (THE TIN DRUM), who retains all the sting of Atwood's feminist classic by sculpting a frighteningly plausible futuristic parable.

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Cast:Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall, Traci Lind

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Sound:HiFi Sound, Stereo Sound,

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Produced in association with Cinetudes Film Productions, Odyssey/Cinecom International.

Color by Technciolor.

Shown at the Berlin Film Festival February 1990.

Additional cast: Zoey Wilson (Aunt Helena), Kathryn Doby (Aunt Elizabeth), and Lucile McIntyre (Rita).

Music and songs heard in the film include:
   "Whispering Hope" by Alice Hawthorne
   "Shall We Gather at the River" by Robert Lowry
   "Old Hundredth (Praise God from Whom All Blessings
      Flow)" by Louis Bourgeois
   "Someday (You Will Want Me to Want You)"
      by Jimmie Hodges, performed by The Mills Brothers
   "I Don't Know Enough About You" by Peggy Lee and
      Dave Barbour, performed by The Mills Brothers
   "Little Girl Blue," "The Most Beautiful Girl in the
      World" by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart
   "Johnny Come Home" by David Steele and Roland Gift,
      performed by Fine Young Cannibals
   "Save a Soul in Every Town" by Henry Priestman,
      performed by The Christians
   "Bereavement" by Otto Sieben
   "Amazing Grace" by John Newton
   "Crazy" by Willie Nelson, performed by Patsy Cline

Rated BBFC 18 by the British Board of Film Classification.

Editorial reviews
"...Shrewd....What keeps [it] moving is [Atwood's] thoroughness and attention to small details..."
Maslin 

"...It's a beautifully austere piece of work -- it's rare to see a film these days as carefully designed as this one..."
Los Angeles Times - Peter Rainer (03/16/1990)

3 stars out of 5 -- "[The film] holds up reasonably well as a future midway between 1984 and CHILDREN OF MEN."
Total Film - Total Film Staff (02/01/2009)

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THE HANDMAID'S TALE (1990) COLOR/109 MINUTES/R.

Starring: NATASHA RICHARDSON, FAYE DUNAWAY, ROBERT DUVALL, ELIZABETH McGOVERN, AIDAN QUINN.

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