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The handmaid's tale. Season one
Title
The handmaid's tale. Season one / Daniel Wilson Productions, Inc. ; The Littlefield Company ; White Oak Pictures ; MGM Television ; Hulu Originals ; producers, Margaret Atwood, Elisabeth Moss ; created by Bruce Miller.
Publication
Bevely Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2018]
Physical Description
3 videodiscs (approximately 525 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Medium
4 3/4 in.
Notes
Based on Margaret Atwood's award-winning, best-selling novel.
Originally made available for online streaming by Hulu in 2017.
Wide screen (1.78:1).
Special features: Script to screen; Hope in Gilead.
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.
Summary
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.
Variant and related titles
Handmaid's tale. Season 1.
Handmaid's tale. First season.
Handmaid's tale. 1st season.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 13, 2018
Cast
Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Joseph Fiennes, Alexis Bledel, Madeline Brewer, Ann Dowd, O.T. Fagbenle, Max Minghella, Samira Wiley.
System details note
DVD, NTSC region 1, widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Audience
TV rating: TV-MA.
Contents
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.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Dystopian television programs.
Television series.
Fiction television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Also listed under
Daniel Wilson Productions, production company.
Littlefield Company, production company.
White Oak Pictures, production company.
MGM-TV, production company.
Hulu (Firm), production company, broadcaster.
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc., publisher.
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