"Een geweldige aanrader: het scenario is briljant en grappig!" - Teek
Oscar winnaar Feoffrey Rush(Shine) schittert als de beruchte Markies de Sade die al generaties lang mensen shockeert met zijn verhalen vol erotiek.Rush wordt bijgestaan door de verleidelijke Kat Winslet(Titantic), Joaquin Phoenix(Gladiator) en oscar winnaar Micheal Caine(The Cider House Rulens Hannah And Her Sisters).
Top regisseur Philip Kaufman(The Rifht Stuff, The Unbearable Lightness Of Beinig) geeft zijn eigen visie op deze notoire schrijver die in het 183 eeuwse Frankrijk zowel de autoriteit van de kerk als de regering tot het uiterste tartte. Om hem weg te houden van de rest van de wereld is de Markeis opgesloten in een gesticht. Via het knappe en onschuldige kamermeisje, Madeleine, die de manuscripten in haar wasmand naar buiten smokkelt, weet hij toch zjn perverse verhalen te blijven uitgeven. Als haar hulp wordt ontdekt, ontstaat een verontrustende en proverceerde confrentatie tussen enerzijds de vrijheid van meningsiting en anderzijds de controlerende behoefte van de overheid.
Quills is grappig, sexy, eng, shockerend, spannend en boeit van begin tot eind!
| Joaquin Phoenix | The Abbe du Coulmier |
| Lisa Hammond | Prostitute |
| Danny Babington | Pitou |
| Julian Tait | Pawnbroker |
| Jamie Beddard | Lunatic at Play |
| Martin Childs | Production Designer |
| Stephen Moyer | Prouix, the Architect |
| Rogier Stoffers | Director of Photography |
| Elizabeth Berrington | Charlotte |
| Peter Boyle | Editor |
| Diana Morrison | Mademoiselle Renard |
| Stephen Warbeck | Original Music Composer |
| Carol MacReady | Sister Noirceuil (as Carol Macready) |
| Howard Lew Lewis | First Vendor |
| Amelia Warner | Simone |
| George Yiasoumi | Dauphin |
| Kate Winslet | Madeleine 'Maddy' LeClerc |
| Daniel Ainsleigh | Guerin |
| Michael Caine | Dr. Royer-Collard |
| George Antoni | Dauphin (as George Yiasoumi) |
| Jane Menelaus | Renee Pelagie |
| Tessa Vale | Sister Flavie |
| Pauline McLynn | Mademoiselle Clairwill (as Pauline Mclynn) |
| Toby Sawyer | Louison |
| Michael Jenn | Cleante |
| Harry Jones | Orvolle |
| Bridget McConnell | Madame Bougival (as Bridget McConnel) |
| Ron Cook | Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Rebecca R. Palmer | Michette (as Rebecca Palmer) |
| Geoffrey Rush | The Marquis de Sade |
| Tom Ward | The Horseman |
| Alex Avery | Abbe du Maupas |
| Billie Whitelaw | Madame LeClerc |
| Edward Tudor-Pole | Franval |
| Stephen Marcus | Bouchon |
| Terry O'Neill | Gaillon |
| Tony Pritchard | Valcour |
| Richard Mulholland | Fop |
| Patrick Malahide | Delbené |
| Deborah Vale | Sister Rose Fatima |
| Mathew Fraser | Lunatic Band Member |
| Mark Huffam | co-producer |
| Ivana Basic | Lunatic (uncredited) |
| Andrew Dunford | Second Vendor |
| Donna Isaacson | Casting Director |
| Priscilla John | Casting Director |
| Steven Lawrence | Art Director |
| Mark Raggett | Art Director |
| Jill Quertier | Set Decorator |
| Jacqueline West | Custome Designer |
| James Armstrong | third assistant director: second unit |
| Michael O'Connor | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Vic Armstrong | second unit director |
| Toby Hefferman | second second assistant director |
| Olivia Lloyd | second assistant director |
| Christopher Barnett | Sound Department |
| Matthew Penry-Davey | Third Assistant Director |
| Mari Roberts | Third Assistant Director |
| Des McAnuff | Executive Producer |
| Brian Chumney | Sound Department |
| Sandra Schulberg | Executive Producer |
| Gabriel Guy | Sound Department |
| Deborah Saban | first assistant director |
| Rudolf G. Wiesmeier | Executive Producer |
| Brian Magerkurth | Sound Department |
| Richard Styles | first assistant director: second unit |
| Suzi Turnbull | Wardrobe Supervisor |
| Dominic Ackland-Snow | supervising carpenter |
| Rebecca Palmer | Michette |
| Steve Alder | Carpenter |
| Martin Asbury | storyboard artist |
| Mark Bailey | Stagehand |
| Geoff Ball | Carpenter |
| Emily Lascelles | assistant production coordinator |
| Vince Bartlett | props runaround |
| Sally Jones | Script Supervisor |
| Gerry Batson | props runaround |
| Ashley Bell | plasterer's laborer |
| Jo Allen | prosthetic technician |
| Ernie Bell | painter |
| Nuala Conway | chief hair stylist |
| Otis A. Bell | chargehand plasterer's laborer (as Otis Bell) |
| Martha Fein | prosthetic technician |
| Rachel Neale | Location Manager |
| Frances Bennett | graphics |
| Brian Bishop | scenic artist |
| Andy Hunt | prosthetic technician |
| Peter King | hair designer |
| Doug Bishop | scenic artist |
| John Blakeley | sculptor |
| Gary Birmingham | Transportation Captain |
| Kate Lee | hair stylist |
| Celia Bobak | production buyer |
| Conor O'Sullivan | prosthetic supervisor |
| Susan d'Arcy | unit publicist |
| Tony Boxall | supervising plasterer |
| Robin Schoonraad | prosthetic technician |
| Tristan Schoonraad | prosthetic technician (as Tristam Schoonraad) |
| Dean Budd | painter's laborer |
| Stuart Sewell | prosthetic technician |
