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Quills is a 2000 perio drama directed by Philip Kaufman and adapted from the Obie award-winning play by Doug Wright, who also wrote the original screenplay. Inspired by the life and work of the Marquis de Sade, Quills re-imagines the last years of the Marquis' incarceration in the insane asylum at Charenton. It stars Geoffrey Rush as the Marquis de Sade, Joaquin Phoenix as the Abbé du Coulmier, Michael Caine as Dr. Royer-Collard, and Kate Winslet as laundress Madeleine "Maddie" LeClerc.

Trivia about quills

  • It's nothing to write home about, but the hollow spines on a hedgehog are called these
  • Filmed in 2000, it's Doug Wright's play about the Marquis de Sade in an asylum
  • The sea urchin is covered with sharp, pointed items called these with which it moves along the seafloor

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