The Handmaid's Tale (1990)
Set in a Fascistic future America, The Handmaid's Tale tells the story of Kate, a handmaid. In this America, the religious right has taken over and gone hog-wild. Kate is a criminal, guilty of the crime of trying to escape from the US, and is sentenced to become a Handmaid. The job of a Handmaid is to bear the children of the man to whom she is assigned... (imdb)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Volker Schlöndorff
Written By: Harold Pinter, Margaret Atwood
Starring: Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall, Natasha Richardson, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth McGovern, Victoria Tennant, Traci Lind, Blanche Baker
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Carlospro | 65 28% |
| Mar 17, 2019 | lillakniven | 55 40% |
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Batmantis | 70 48% |
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3/17/19 - Basically a rearranged version of the book. Not a lot of insight into the world of the Handmaids though. I liked how this movie had more of an ending than the book did, though.
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| Feb 26, 2019 |  |
Brewster | 60 64% |
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Não é tão ruim quanto tentam pintar hoje ou quando flopou nos anos 90, acho uma adaptação bem honesta que não desvia da distopia para mulheres que Atwood erigiu. DVD Versátil Clássicos Sci-fi Volume 5
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| Oct 08, 2018 |  |
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the bad adaptation, still might make you cry tho
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sacmersault | 63 26% |
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EbelC | 30 13% |
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Read the book or watch the TV-Series, any approach would be good but this. Awful acting, bad rythm, incorrect tone, it misses the whole point and certainly doesn't offer anything interesting instead. It's surprising that, somehow, it's close to the original material (doesn't add many new things, includes most central scenes, many dialogues are literally the same) and yet it feels so awfully different due to how bad it's acted, shot and edited.
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Temptershell | 64 24% |
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muutanet | 32 24% |
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A mild version of the well done block buster series.
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| Feb 11, 2018 | davidjn | 60 52% |
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Henrik | 55 31% |
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abasakucan | 55 7% |
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| Apr 15, 2017 | crtsjffrsn | 60 56% |
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RYM-byrates | 53 27% |
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jagardoden | 70 52% |
| Feb 11, 2017 | sthickett | 70 70% |
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mrbluesky | 91 87% |
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I love simply how Antwood's work has interpreted.
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| Sep 14, 2016 | jffrakes | 70 50% |
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| Sep 05, 2016 | xnfn | 80 78% |
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| Aug 28, 2016 | Plaza | 4 17% |
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nihilvain | 60 26% |
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| Feb 18, 2016 | chair39 | 60 76% |
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Ketkin_Kat | 80 10% |
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so, this movie as well as book showed me my biggest fear: the world whrere only "red" patriarchy exists. Where women are just bowls with embrions, where all female rights were just eliminated.
cant say, that movie by itself is good, but anyway, you should watch this
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| Jan 18, 2016 | gledX | 60 35% |
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robot2xl | 70 8% |
| Nov 22, 2015 | jamesbond | 37 2% |
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| Oct 19, 2015 | JQuentin | 78 33% |
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| Sep 27, 2015 | SnoopyStyle | 60 43% |
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mrarn | 50 57% |
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Found this to be an interesting story, but it felt one dimensional, like I was missing part of the story.
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Adam P-D | 50 54% |
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drawkward86 | 35 9% |
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Despite being pretty faithful to the novel's plot, it's remarkably unfaithful to its tone, largely because it loses the novel's inner monologue. That inner voice is needed because this is a story focused entirely on a woman unable to express her feelings outwardly. Also needs more attention to detail and world-building, more seaminess, more menace, more uncertainty, more hypocrisy, more outrage (all of which are promised in the opening sequence). A film as flaccid as the Commander himself.
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nickwin_dk | 68 48% |
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Barraoc | 60 38% |
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A watch-able but underwhelming adaptation of Atwood's excellent novel. The tone and, I dare say, the point were completely missed.
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panomadgreek | 68 35% |
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Can't speak for the book but I've seen plenty other films on a similar theme but executed better.
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guvolefou | 67 32% |
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It sticks to the book, which is generally good, but I think it somehow leaves what the book has to say and offer behind.
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misterlizard | 55 56% |
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Interesting take on the dystopian future story. It's far from being perfect but good enough that it makes me want to read the novel it's based on.
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i don't think the film delivers what the book has to offer.
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| Feb 21, 2011 |  |
CAMcleod | 60 20% |
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Though not a very skilled adaptation of Margaret Atwood's masterwork, this film is oddly memorable. It sticks in your head; it is not the main cast, though Faye Dunaway is impeccable; I think, rather, there are moments where the imagery of the novel is finely rendered [such as the scene where the Handmaids attack one of their own in front of a row of hanged criminals], and these stick in the memory as all great dystopia should.
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Passes the time.
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Boo to nonsensical character behavior, and a setup that can't decide if it wants to go for plain old fiction or satire. Yay for the unique premise, the innovative Ryuichi Sakamoto score, and the performances. A note-perfect performance by Richardson.
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imdb | 58 32% |
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Fascinating tale of fascist You Ess of A. Remember reading the story as well
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An exellent interpretation of an amazing story. There are some flaws in the representation of the story, but as a story overall, well put together, and excellently casted.
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I hated having to read Margaret Atwood's TERRIBLE prose in high school English class, but this adaptation of her novel about a bleak future is actually pretty good. Duvall makes a wonderfully slimy fascist and the story has a few unexpected twists along the way.
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Quite the grim movie, but very fascinating.
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Stain | 80 68% |
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Damned interesting piece of work that's never received the attention it deserves. Socially oriented sf is more of a grownup's kind of thing, and since the US's culture is more of a 12-year-old's than a adult's, well... you figure out the rest of the story. This story is still intriguing, and helped along by a terrific cast and one of the old guard of the German filmmaking community (of all people)
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