# Quills (2000)

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**Runtime**: 124 min
**Genres**: Drama
**Directed by**: Philip Kaufman
**Written by**: Doug Wright
**Starring**: Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine, Billie Whitelaw, Patrick Malahide

> *Meet the Marquis de Sade. The pleasure is all his.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Napoleon-complex meets *Dangerous Liaisons* in a cage match of ink and quill. A degenerate aristocrat keeps smuggling scandalous manuscripts from his padded cell. The result is a blood-sport cage match of censorship, madness and one very rattled priest. Watch a featherweight writer win by TKO.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, dread, sexy

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