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Quills

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Key Information
Directors: Philip Kaufman
Stars: Michael Caine
Actors: Patrick Malahide
Genre: Dramas
Subgenre: Writers
MPAA Rating: R (MPAA)
Available Formats: VHS: Spanish Subtitles
UPC: 024543016625
Release Date: 2000
Running Time: 2hr 4min
Languages
Original Language: English
DVD Editions
: Format: DVD, 2hr 4min
Release Company: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (May 08, 2001)
UPC: 024543016625
VHS Editions
: Format: VHS: Premiere Series, 2hr 4min
Release Company: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (November 06, 2001)
UPC: 024543023272
Credits
Screenwriter: Doug Wright
Professional Reviews
: (11/01/2000, p.152, Annlee Ellingson): "...Rush relishes his role....Winslet captures both the beauty and the spirit of the character..."
Quotes from the Movie
: "If I wasn't such a bad woman on the page, I couldn't be such a good woman in life."--Madeleine (Kate Winslet) to Abbe Coulmier (Joaquin Phoenix)
More Information
Details: Based on the award-winning play by Doug Wright, this erotic and fantastical drama reconstructs the unknown fate of the Marquis de Sade, the writer and sexual deviant who was imprisoned in Charenton Asylum for the last 10 years of his life. QUILLS is a Gothic period piece from director Philip Kaufman that details the fall of the French Revolution and the subsequent imprisonment of the fallen aristocrat, a notorious free thinker who lived to write with an outstanding creative spirit and provocative sexual appetite. In the film, the Marquis de Sade (Geoffrey Rush) befriends the liberal director of the asylum, Abbe Coulmier (Joaquin Phoenix), and both share affections with the asylum laundress, Madeleine (Kate Winslet). Madeleine is a nubile but virginal young woman profoundly attracted to the mental prowess of the clever and wickedly defiant inmate who willingly smuggles his banished texts out of the asylum. But, when Napoleon reads JUSTINE, one of Sade's anonymous texts, he sends in Dr. Royer-Collard (Mich...
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