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.
Genre: Drama
Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine, Billie Whitelaw
Directed & Produced by: Stephen Warbeck, Philip Kaufman, Priscilla John, Donna Isaacson, Nick Wechsler
Release date: 11/22/2000
Running time: 124 minutes
IMDb Rating: 7/10 by 296 users