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3 videodiscs (approximately 525 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Based on Margaret Atwood's award-winning, best-selling novel
Disc 1: Offred -- Birth day -- Late -- Nolite te bastardes carborundorum -- Disc 2: Faithful -- A woman's place -- The other side -- Jezebels -- Disc 3: The bridge -- Night
A religion-based autocracy has taken over most of the United States, renaming the country Gilead. In this country women are second-class citizens. Anyone trying to escape is punished. One such person is June, who is captured while trying to escape with her husband and child and is sentenced to be a handmaid, bearing children for childless government officials. As a handmaid, June is renamed Offred. This is her story
Originally made available for online streaming by Hulu in 2017
Wide screen (1.78:1)
Special features: Script to screen; Hope in Gilead
Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Joseph Fiennes, Alexis Bledel, Madeline Brewer, Ann Dowd, O.T. Fagbenle, Max Minghella, Samira Wiley
TV rating: TV-MA
DVD, NTSC region 1, widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1
In English; Spanish and French subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH); closed-captioned
2018 Golden Globe Award for best television series, drama