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Quills (2000)
- R
- 09/02/2000 (US)
- Drama
- 2h 4m
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.
Doug Wright
ScreenplayPhilip Kaufman
DirectorCast
![Geoffrey Rush's headshot](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/npXFjaFQzBNroCEPllGPTZ5IisA.jpg)
Geoffrey Rush
Marquis de Sade![Kate Winslet's headshot](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/e3tdop3WhseRnn8KwMVLAV25Ybv.jpg)
Kate Winslet
Madeleine LeClerc![Joaquin Phoenix's headshot](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/u38k3hQBDwNX0VA22aQceDp9Iyv.jpg)
Joaquin Phoenix
Abbe du Coulmier![Michael Caine's headshot](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/bVZRMlpjTAO2pJK6v90buFgVbSW.jpg)
Michael Caine
Dr. Royer-Collard![Billie Whitelaw's headshot](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/zd72JkqXOcDdgyJ2pybVKZwHnLy.jpg)
Billie Whitelaw
Madame LeClerc![Patrick Malahide's headshot](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/ae0AJ8FbJireYPQyglIxNucjqIy.jpg)
Patrick Malahide
Delbené![Amelia Warner's headshot](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/b7VE6UyqbW9bJiNQ6uJXThz4EJt.jpg)
Amelia Warner
Simone![Jane Menelaus's headshot](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/vj86w6yOcjxWSpmngK54LBVwyuc.jpg)