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    Jefferson in Paris

    PG-131995 · Historical drama · 2h 19m

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  1. Jefferson in Paris is a 1995 historical drama film, directed by James Ivory, and previously entitled Head and Heart.The screenplay, by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, is a semi-fictional account of Thomas Jefferson's tenure as the Ambassador of the United States to France before his presidency and of his alleged relationships with Italian-English artist Maria Cosway and his slave, Sally Hemings.

    • $14 million
  2. Apr 7, 1995 · The Jefferson in this movie is such a remote figure that you wonder, by the movie's end, if he actually knew he was having sex at the time. Perhaps his mind was preoccupied with architecture or philosophy. The movie takes place in the mid-1780s, when Jefferson ( Nick Nolte ), author of the Declaration of Independence, replaced Benjamin Franklin ...

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  4. Jefferson in Paris was a terrific film. It exposed and examined Jefferson's split personality - creating the Declaration of Independence, insisting he wanted slavery abolished, but keeping a ...

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    • James Ivory
    • PG-13
    • Nick Nolte
  5. Patsy vows to care for Polly as would a sister and a mother. Polly (Estelle Eonnet) arrives in Paris with Jefferson's teenage slave and maidservant Sally Hemings (Thandy Newton). Nick Nolte performs a superb portrayal of Thomas Jefferson as a vibrant statesman and a passionate human being. He is attracted to and pursued by Maria Cosway (Greta ...

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  7. Jefferson In Paris. Chronicles the time that Thomas Jefferson spent as the American Ambassador to France (1784-1789). These were significant years for him in his public and personal life, and fateful ones for France, where the revolution was about to break out. 576 IMDb 5.7 2 h 19 min 1995. X-Ray PG-13. Drama · Emotional. Available to rent or buy.

  8. 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.

    • 139 min
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