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Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic)  /  Production Year: 2000  /  Region 1

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Select Product View: General Info 2 Empire Reviews 1 Customer Comments Suggestions Used Product Box Cover 9 Screen Shots Email a Friend Overall Rating: 4.42 out of 5, including 3 reviews Add your comments on this Title. Synopsis "Wickedly Funny andiVery Sexy." -The New York Times Academy Award® winners Geoffrey Rush and Michael Caine join Oscar® nominees Kate Winslet and Joaquin Phoenix in this provocative film filled with delicious desire and wicked wit. Rush gives a tour-de-force performance as history's most infamous sexual adventurer, the Marquis de Sade. A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid (Winslet) smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest (Phoenix). The titillating passages whip all of France into a sexual frenzy, until a fiercely conservative doctor (Caine) tries to put an end to the fun, inadvertently stoking the excitement to a fever pitch. Cast & Crew Actors:  • Geoffrey Rush  • Kate Winslet  • Michael Caine  • Joaquin Phoenix Writers:  • Doug Wright Producers:  • Julia Chasman  • Nick Wechsler  • Peter Kaufman Directors:  • Philip Kaufman Product Information Features: 3 Revealing Featurettes Commentary by Screenwriter Doug Wright Still Gallery Theatrical Trailers & TV Spot Video: Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic) Audio: (more info) ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC] ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Surround [CC] FRENCH: Dolby Digital Surround Subtitles: English, Spanish Studio: 20th Century Fox Production Year: 2000 Release Date: 5/8/2001 Length: 124 mins Rating: R Chapters: 20 Includes: Audio Commentary Packaging: Keep Case Number of Discs: 1 Empire SKU: 26477 Disc: SS-DL Item Code: 2001662 UPC Code: 024543016625 Browsei Category: Movies Genre: Nicole's Picks, Alex's Picks, Art House, Drama, Erotica, Historical / Period Piece Bargains: $5 to $10 Studios: 20th Century Fox Reviews Overall Rating: 4.42 out of 5, including 3 reviews Add your comments on this Title. Empire Review Quills thrills me - 4.5 out of 5  (4/30/2001) The general consensus is that the Academy really screwed up at this years Oscar's. I have to agree with that because while GLADIATOR was a fine movie, so many others eclipsed it in the past year. QUILLS is one of those films. If you don't believe me then stop and consider this! How many movies could make a hero out of the Marquis De Sade? Geoffrey Rush plays the Marquis and this is the performance of his career! Again, consider the validity of this statement when compared with his p   more >> Customer Review from Fringe Video Fanzine Issue #005 - 4.25 out of 5  (6/7/2002) Not a biography, however the Quills is a arthouse mix of real life, and fiction centring around the Marquis de Sade [played by Geoffrey Rush / House on Haunted Hill (1999) / Mystery Men (1999)]. The Marquis was French author who, because of his remarkably scandalous life, spent more than 27 years in prison and from his cell witnessed more than 1,800 beheading's. To this day, most of his works are still banned in many countries, and are considered obscene and unpublishable. This is just one mo   more >>