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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.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: M136099 | 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: French, Spanish, English Publisher: Bevely Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2018]Description: 3 videodiscs (approximately 525 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Other title:
  • Handmaid's tale. Season 1
  • Handmaid's tale. First season
  • Handmaid's tale. 1st season
Related works:
  • Television picture adaptation of (work) : Atwood, Margaret, 1939- Handmaid's tale
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
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.
Awards:
  • 2018 Golden Globe Award for best television series, drama.
Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Joseph Fiennes, Alexis Bledel, Madeline Brewer, Ann Dowd, O.T. Fagbenle, Max Minghella, Samira Wiley.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.
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Adult DVD Adult DVD Dr. James Carlson Library DVD DRAMA Handmaid Available 33111009086402
Adult DVD Adult DVD Main Library DVD DRAMA Handmaid Available 33111009086410
Adult DVD Adult DVD Northport Library DVD DRAMA Handmaid In transit from Main Library to Northport Library since 05/06/2024 33111007830322
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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.

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.

Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Joseph Fiennes, Alexis Bledel, Madeline Brewer, Ann Dowd, O.T. Fagbenle, Max Minghella, Samira Wiley.

Title from disc surface.

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).

TV rating: TV-MA.

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.

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.

Special features: Script to screen; Hope in Gilead.

2018 Golden Globe Award for best television series, drama.

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