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No need to waste time endlessly browsing—here's the entire lineup of new movies and TV shows streaming on Netflix this month. See the full list. Title: The Handmaid's Tale Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship. Welcome to Gilead. Don't worry, it's not as scary as it might seem.

Must-see movies are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale. Title: Handmaid's Tale Date: Vitals: Set in a post-apocalyptic future clearly inspired by the Reagan Era, the Christian Right has taken over the US government and instituted a system of concubinage borrowed from the Old Testament. So many women are infertile that the government gives powerful men "handmaids" to bear the children their wives cannot. Trapped in a world where women are chattel, one handmaid forges alliances with a rebel underground and dares to revolt.

The book has been adapted into plays , and even an opera. In many ways, the movie adaptation was ill-fated from the start, even with the wide acclaim the book had received. In , Atwood sold the rights to the producer Daniel Wilson, partly because Wilson had tapped Pinter and the director Karel Reisz to lead the project.

The story of a young girl who is forced into sex slavery by an uncaring society where female subjugation became a government policy struck a chord. But it did go very wrong. It was very much like walking on a tightrope with two weights on either side, Atwood and Pinter. Source: MGM.