Robert Duvall
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in a future where fundamentalists have established "the Republic of Gilead", the handmaids of the title are those few women who can still bear children after the combined ravages of chemical pollution and civil war. A woman, Kate, is caught trying to escape the soldiers of the Republic and is found to be fertile, marking her for handmaid servitude, but also bringing her within the society of the ruling elite
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (130 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gregory Peck plays a southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The way in which it captures a time, a place, and above all, a mood, makes this film a masterpiece.