Drama Romance History
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.
Directed by
James Ivory
Written by
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Nick Nolte
Thomas Jefferson
Gwyneth Paltrow
Patsy Jefferson
Vincent Cassel
Camille Desmoulins
William Moseley
George Washington de Lafayette
Thandiwe Newton
Sally Hemings
Greta Scacchi
Maria Cosway
James Earl Jones
Madison Hemings
Simon Callow
Richard Cosway
Seth Gilliam
James Hemings
Lambert Wilson
Marquis de Lafayette
Nancy Marchand
Madame Abbesse
Michael Lonsdale
Louis XVI
Thibault de Montalembert
Assistant
Vernon Dobtcheff
King's Translator
Nigel Whitmey
John Trumbull
Elsa Zylberstein
Adrienne de Lafayette
Tim Choate
Reporter
Todd Boyce
William Short
Beatrice Winde
Mary Hemings
Joanna Merlin
Scott Thrun
Head and Heart Game
Jean-Pierre Aumont
D'Hancarville
Steve Kalfa
Dr. Guillotin
Daniel Mesguich
Mesmer
Nicolas Silberg
Monsieur Petit
Charlotte de Turckheim
Marie Antoinette
Jessica Lloyd
Julia

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