In a dystopicly polluted rightwing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.


Credits: TheMovieDb.
Film Cast:
Kate: Natasha Richardson
Serena Joy: Faye Dunaway
Nick: Aidan Quinn
Moira: Elizabeth McGovern
Aunt Lydia: Victoria Tennant
Commander: Robert Duvall
Ofglen: Blanche Baker
Ofwarren / Janine: Traci Lind
Aunt Helena: Zoey Wilson
Aunt Elizabeth: Kathryn Doby
Luke: Reiner Schöne
Cora: Lucia Hartpeng
Aunt Sara: Karma Ibsen Riley
Rita: Lucile McIntyre
Officer on Bus: Gary Bullock
June: Allison Holmes
Preacher: J. Michael Hunter
Dick: Robert D. Raiford
Film Crew:
Costume Design: Colleen Atwood
Editor: David Ray
Stunts: Richard E. Butler
Executive Producer: Wolfgang Glattes
Casting: Pat Golden
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Director of Photography: Igor Luther
Original Music Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto
Set Decoration: Jan Pascale
Co-Producer: Eberhard Junkersdorf
Screenplay: Harold Pinter
Producer: Daniel Wilson
Associate Producer: Alex Gartner
Art Direction: Gregory Melton
Novel: Margaret Atwood
Stunt Coordinator: Steve Kelso
Production Design: Thomas A. Walsh
Associate Producer: Gale Goldberg
Movie Reviews:
GenerationofSwine: Now look at this, someone made the Handmaid’s Tale into something watchable. You know what the difference between this and the series is?

I’ll give you a hint it’s two things… do you have it yet?
Time and story. The TV show has FAR too many episodes, and each is far too long to tell a compelling story. The 1990 HBO version is only about 100 minutes. It’s not dragged out to the point where it is filled to overflowing with, well, with filler. It delivers a clean and concise story that didn’t spare a cut. And because of that it works.
But…. it also has Faye Dunaway, and it has Natasha Richardson, and it has Robert Duvall, and it has Aidan Quinn… and those are all people that everyone would be honored to cast, and they were certainly people that anyone would be thrilled to cast back in 1990.
So, what you have is a clean script that is void of unnecessary filler (and in the case of the TV series, free of painfully long unnecessary filler) and that script is acted out by some of the best people in the industry.
You can’t ask for more.