Geoffrey Rush
The Marquis de Sade
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Dec 15, 2000 · Quills: Directed by Philip Kaufman. With Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine. In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.
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- Biography, Drama
- Philip Kaufman
- 2000-12-15
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It stars Geoffrey Rush as de Sade, Kate Winslet as laundress Madeleine "Maddie" LeClerc, Joaquin Phoenix as the Abbé de Coulmier, and Michael Caine as Dr. Royer-Collard . Well received by critics, Quills garnered acclaim for its performances from Rush, and Winslet and its screenplay.
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.
A fictional work that reconstructs the unknown fate of the Marquis de Sade, the writer and sexual deviant who was imprisoned in an insane asylum for the last 10 years of his life. The Marquis de ...
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- Philip Kaufman
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- Geoffrey Rush
Quills - Full Cast & Crew. Stellar turns by Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Michael Caine and Joaquin Phoenix spark this atmospheric biopic. Oscar nominee Rush plays the imprisoned Marquis de Sade...
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Doug Wright. Screenplay. 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.
