The 1990 Film based on the best-selling dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood,
now a hit tv
series.
“dazzles with it’s ingenuity and shocks with it’s outrageousness” - WNCN Radio
In the not-so-distant future, strong-willed and beautiful Kate possesses a
precious commodity
that most women have lost and most men want to control…fertility. Forced into
a brain-
washing bootcamp that turns fertile women into surrogate mothers for
social-elite men and
their infertile wives, Kate thinks she’s made out well when she’s assigned
to an eminent party
leader. But when she learns that he’s sterile, she’s faced with the
impossible choice: produce him an heir or die!
“The early '90s were also not exactly a robust period in political cinema, and the influence of the Moral Majority – so clearly felt in Atwood's text – wasn't as pronounced in the Bush I White House as it had been in Reagan's. But, sadly, it sure is now.” - Flavorwire