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Jefferson in Paris (1995)
Directed by James Ivory
“A powerful man torn between his love for one woman and his secret desire for another.”
Drama, Romance, History · 2h 19m
His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.
Cast
Nick Nolte
Thomas Jefferson
Greta Scacchi
Maria Cosway
Thandiwe Newton
Sally Hemings
Gwyneth Paltrow
Patsy Jefferson
Jean-Pierre Aumont
D'Hancarville
Simon Callow
Richard Cosway
Seth Gilliam
James Hemings
James Earl Jones
Madison Hemings
Michael Lonsdale
Louis XVI
Nancy Marchand
Madame Abbesse
Charlotte de Turckheim
Marie Antoinette
Lambert Wilson
Marquis de Lafayette
Crew
- Director
- James Ivory
- Writer
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Director of Photography
- Pierre Lhomme
- Original Music Composer
- Richard Robbins
- Editor
- Andrew Marcus, Isabelle Lorente
- Producer
- Ismail Merchant
Details
- Release date
- 1995-03-31
- Runtime
- 2h 19m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, History
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- France, United States of America
- Production
- Merchant Ivory Productions, Touchstone Pictures
- Budget
- $14,000,000
- Box office
- $2,474,000