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The Handmaid's Tale

In the near future, war rages across the Republic of Gilead—formerly the United States of America—and pollution has rendered 99% of the population sterile. Kate is a woman who attempts to emigrate to Canada with her husband and daughter. As they take a dirt road, the Gilead Border Guard orders them to turn back or they will open fire. Kate's husband uses an automatic rifle to draw the fire, telling Kate to run, but he gets shot. Kate gets captured, while their daughter wanders off into the back country, confused and unaccompanied. The authorities take Kate to a training facility with several other women, where she and her companions receive training to become Handmaids—concubines for one of the privileged but barren couples who run the country's religious fundamentalist regime. Although she resists being indoctrinated into the cult of the Handmaids, which mixes Old Testament orthodoxy with scripted group chanting and ritualized violence, Kate is soon assigned to the home of "the Commander" (Fred) and of his cold, inflexible wife, Serena Joy. There she is named "Offred"—"of Fred".

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  • TheTVDB.com Movie ID 6906
  • Status Released
  • Released Worldwide March 9, 1990
  • Runtime 108 minutes
  • Genres Drama Science Fiction
  • Original Country United States of America
  • Original Language English
  • Spoken Languages German Spanish English
  • Production Company Bioskop Film Cinecom Entertainment Group Cinetudes Films
  • Production Countries Germany United States of America
  • On Other Sites IMDB TheMovieDB.com
  • Box Office Worldwide $4,960,385
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