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Quills
Year:
Duration:
124 min
Genres:
Biography | Drama
IMDB rate:
7.4
Director:
Philip Kaufman
Awards:
Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 20 wins & 38 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 2000-12-15
Filming Locations: London, England, UK
Earnings
Budget: $13,500,000
Opening Weekend: $249,383 (USA) (26 November 2000)
Gross: $7,060,876 (USA) (29 April 2001)
Cast
Actor
Character
Geoffrey Rush
The Marquis de Sade
Kate Winslet
Madeleine 'Maddy' LeClerc
Joaquin Phoenix
The Abbe du Coulmier
Michael Caine
Dr. Royer-Collard
Billie Whitelaw
Madame LeClerc
Patrick Malahide
Delbené
Amelia Warner
Simone
Jane Menelaus
Renee Pelagie
Stephen Moyer
Prouix, the Architect
Tony Pritchard
Valcour
Michael Jenn
Cleante
Danny Babington
Pitou
George Antoni
Dauphin (as George Yiasoumi)
Stephen Marcus
Bouchon
Elizabeth Berrington
Charlotte
Edward Tudor-Pole
Franval
Harry Jones
Orvolle
Bridget McConnell
Madame Bougival (as Bridget McConnel)
Pauline McLynn
Mademoiselle Clairwill (as Pauline Mclynn)
Rebecca Palmer
Michette
Toby Sawyer
Louison
Daniel Ainsleigh
Guerin
Alex Avery
Abbe du Maupas
Terry O'Neill
Gaillon
Diana Morrison
Mademoiselle Renard
Carol MacReady
Sister Noirceuil (as Carol Macready)
Richard Mulholland
Fop
Ron Cook
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte
Julian Tait
Pawnbroker
Deborah Vale
Sister Rose Fatima
Tessa Vale
Sister Flavie
Howard Lew Lewis
First Vendor
Andrew Dunford
Second Vendor
Lisa Hammond
Prostitute
Mathew Fraser
Lunatic Band Member
Jamie Beddard
Lunatic at Play
Ivana Basic
Lunatic (uncredited)
Royston Munt
Footman (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
The actors playing the inmates all had their characters diagnosed with genuine mental illnesses by a psychiatrist.
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The genuine model head cast from the real Marie Antoinette (and on loan from Madame Tussaud's wax museum in London) is in the basket of aristocratic victims.
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Special plastic/pleather shoes had to be made for Joaquin Phoenix. As a strict vegan, he refused to wear leather.
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Goofs
Numerous inaccuracies regarding chronology and biography. The opening narrative does explain that the facts have been "tarted up."
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When Madeleine is putting on her dress after getting her wounds clean, she slips her arm into the sleeve twice.
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When Simone is buying her copy of "Justine", the date visible on the cover is MDCCCCVII: 1907. There is one C too many.
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Quotes
Renee Pelagie: If you cure him, I mean really cure him, harness the beast that rages in his soul.
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Royer-Collard: Take this beast back to his cage!
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Madeleine: Don't come any closer Abbe, God's watching.
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Photos from cast
Tom Ward
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