Following a coup, America is a country still at war with itself and ruled by a repressive Bible-inspired regime. Past pollution means only 1 per cent of women can bear children. In a dystopian, polluted right wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility. Director: Volker Schlöndorff Writers: Margaret Atwood (novel), Harold Pinter (screenplay) Stars: Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn, Robert Duvall.