That movie had a young Natasha Richardson.
“The Handmaid’s Tale” book is closer to a Christian Taliban in charge, partially in response to a civil war and a virus that left most women fertile. Upper class men whose wives were sterile could be assigned a fertile hand-maiden to bear their children. And sterility was always the woman’s fault, never the man’s.
The similarities to Saudi Arabia struck me, with women veiled but party houses full of whores available to the upper class and visiting dignitaries.
Probably not for proper discussion but the one part of the movie was really disturbing. When the man would “impregnate” the fertile vessel (veiled the entire time) with the wife. Almost like they were pretending the child would be 100% genetically theirs. The movie also illustrated how the infertile women became hostile and cold. I remember when one woman was having a difficult labor, the soon to be Mom would say “hurry up”. It truly was a disturbing movie on so many levels. IMHO.