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History's most infamous sexual adventurer lives in a madhouse, where a beautiful laundry maid helps him smuggle his erotic stories to the printer, defying orders from the asylum's priest.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Fox Searchlight Pictures, Industry Entertainment, Walrus & Associates, Hollywood Partners, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
Other Authors: Kaufman, Philip, 1936-, Wechsler, Nick, Chasman, Julia, Kaufman, Peter, Wright, Doug, 1962-, Rush, Geoffrey, 1951-, Winslet, Kate, Phoenix, Joaquin, Caine, Michael, Warbeck, Stephen, Wright, Doug
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
French
Published: Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2001]
Edition:Widescreen version.
Subjects:
Sade, > marquis de, > 1740-1814 > Drama.
Wright, Doug > Film adaptations.
Freedom of the press > France > Drama.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Description
Summary:History's most infamous sexual adventurer lives in a madhouse, where a beautiful laundry maid helps him smuggle his erotic stories to the printer, defying orders from the asylum's priest.
Item Description:Originally released as a motion picture in 2000.
Based on the play by Doug Wright.
Special features include 3 featurettes (Marquis on the marquee, Creating Charenton, Dressing the part), commentary by the screenwriter, theatrical trailers & TV spot, music promo, stills gallery of production artifacts, historical facts about the people portrayed in the film, and little known facts about the film's production and actors.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD; region 1; NTSC.
Audience:MPAA rating: R.
Production Credits:Director of photography, Rogier Stoffers ; editor, Peter Boyle ; music, Stephen Warbeck.