Handmaid's Tale, The (Blu-ray + DVD Combo)

Handmaid's Tale, The (Blu-ray + DVD Combo)

With a "Cool eroticism, intelligence and intensity" (Playboy), this eerie futuristic thriller, based on Margaret Atwood's controversial and critically acclaimed best-selling novel, is filled with "large themes and deep thoughts" (Roger Ebert). Boasting a phenomenal cast including Natasha Richardson (Nell) and Oscar winner Faye Dunaway (Network) and Robert Duvall (Tender Mercies), this film dazzles with its ingenuity and shocks with its outrageousness" (WNCN Radio)!

In the not-so-distant future, strong-willed and beautiful Kate (Richardson possesses a precious commodity that most woman have lost and most men want to control... fertility. Leaving a brain-washing boot camp that turns fertile woman into surrogate mothers for elite men and their infertile wives, Kate thinks she's made out well when she's assigned to an eminent party leader (Duvall). But when she learns that he's sterile, she's faced with the impossible choice: produce him an heir or die!