Quills(Movie, 2000)

Name: Quills
Genre: Drama
Released: 2000
Duration: T02:4:00
Rating: 3.6

2h 4min | Genre: Drama

Rating: 3.6/5 (with 268 votes)

Quills is a 2000 period film directed by Philip Kaufman and adapted from the Obie award-winning 1995 play by Doug Wright, who also wrote the original screenplay. Inspired by the life and work of the Marquis de Sade, Quills re-imagines the last years of the Marquis's incarceration in the insane asylum at Charenton. 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. The film received nominations for three Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. The National Board of Review named it the Best Film of 2000. The Writers Guild of America awarded Doug Wright with the Paul Selvin ... ()

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Awards & Nominations for Quills

National Board of Review: Top Ten Films National Board of Review Award for Best Film nominated for: Academy Award for Best Actor nominated for: Academy Award for Best Costume Design nominated for: Academy Award for Best Production Design

About Quills

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.

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Production countries: Germany, United Kingdom (UK), United States of America (USA)

Shot in: London, Pinewood Studios

Plays in: France

Made by: Fox Searchlight Pictures, Industry Entertainment, Hollywood Partners, Charenton Productions

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 25 languages: Arabic (AR), Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 11/22/2000

Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine, Billie Whitelaw, Amelia Warner, Jane Menelaus, Stephen Moyer, Patrick Malahide, Stephen Marcus, Ron Cook, Elizabeth Berrington, Edward Tudor-Pole, Tom Ward, Pauline McLynn, Rebecca Palmer, Howard Lew Lewis, Carol MacReady

Director: Philip Kaufman

Screenwriter: Doug Wright

Film Editor: Peter Boyle

Director of Photography: Rogier Stoffers

Composer: Stephen Warbeck

Production Designer: Martin Childs

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Перо маркиза де Сада"

Keywords: asylum, paris, france, smuggling (contraband), based on play or musical, 19th century, maid, french revolution

Budget: 13,500,000 USD

Revenue: 7,060,876 USD (= 52%)

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