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.
Released: Nov 22, 2000
Runtime: 124 minutes
Genre: Drama
Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine, Billie Whitelaw, Patrick Malahide
Crew: Doug Wright (Screenplay), Philip Kaufman (Director), Peter Boyle (Editor), Rogier Stoffers (Director of Photography), Julia Chasman (Producer), Stephen Warbeck (Original Music Composer)