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Jefferson in Paris

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4.8129average critics score, out of 1019952h 19mPG-13

HistoryDrama

His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson (Nick Nolte) accepts the post of the 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 (Greta Scacchi), but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings (Thandie Newton), Jefferson's attentions are diverted.

Directed by:

James Ivory