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.
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