A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France into a sexual frenzy, until a fiercely conservative doctor tries to put an end to the fun.

• DirectorPhilip Kaufman
• Release22 November 2000
• GenreDrama
• Duration2h 4m
• Budget$13,500,000
• Revenue$7,060,876
• Rate
  

  7.14
  665 reviews
• Productions

  Charenton Productions, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Industry Entertainment Partners, Walrus & Associates, Hollywood Partners