The Handmaid's Tale ★★½ 1990 (R) A cool, shallow but nonetheless chilling nightmare based on Margaret Atwood's bestselling novel, about a woman caught in the machinations of a near-future society so sterile it enslaves the few fertile women and forces them into being child-bearing "handmaids." 109m/C VHS, DVD, Wide. Natasha Richardson, Robert Duvall, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth McGovern, Victoria Tennant, Blanche Baker, Traci Lind;
Director:
Volker Schlondorff;
Writer:
Harold Pinter;
Writer:
Igor Luther;
Cameo:
Ryuichi Sakamoto.
