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.
Director: Philip Kaufman
Producer: Julia Chasman
Producer: Nick Wechsler
Producer: Peter Kaufman
Actor: Billie Whitelaw
Actor: Geoffrey Rush
Actor: Joaquin Phoenix
Actor: Michael Caine
Actor: Kate Winslet