The movie "Quills" 2000

In early 19th-century France, the Marquis de Sade is locked up in an asylum, yet his forbidden writings slip past its walls with the help of a laundress. As the authorities tighten their grip, the abbé who runs the asylum and a doctor sent to silence him clash with the Marquis. Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix and Michael Caine star in Philip Kaufman's film, adapted from a play. More »