Quills (2000)

11/22/2000 (DE) • 2h 4m

Drama

Meet the Marquis de Sade. The pleasure is all his.

Overview

A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France into a sexual frenzy, until a fiercely conservative doctor tries to put an end to the fun.

Top Billed Cast

Geoffrey Rush

Marquis de Sade

Kate Winslet

Madeleine LeClerc

Joaquin Phoenix

Abbe du Coulmier

Michael Caine

Dr. Royer-Collard

Billie Whitelaw

Madame LeClerc

Jane Menelaus

Renee Pelagie


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$13,500,000.00

Revenue

$7,060,876.00

Keywords

paris, france

smuggling (contraband)

asylum

french revolution

based on play or musical

maid

19th century

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