Ismail Merchant Humbert Balsan Paul Bradley Donald Rosenfeld
Starring
Nick Nolte
Greta Scacchi
Jean-Pierre Aumont
Simon Callow
Seth Gilliam
James Earl Jones
Michael Lonsdale
Nancy Marchand
Thandiwe Newton
Gwyneth Paltrow
Charlotte de Turckheim
Lambert Wilson
Cinematography
Pierre Lhomme
Music by
Richard Robbins
Production companies
Touchstone Pictures Merchant Ivory Productions
Distributed by
Gaumont (France)[1] Buena Vista Pictures Distribution (international)
Release dates
March 31, 1995 (1995-03-31) (United States)
May 17, 1995 (1995-05-17) (France)
Running time
139 minutes
Countries
France United States
Languages
English French
Budget
$14 million
Box office
$5.9 million[2]
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.
The film was critically and commercially unsuccessful, grossing $5.9 million on a $14 million budget.
^"Jefferson in Paris (1993)". UniFrance. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
^Goodridge, Mike (September 13, 1996). "The Survivors". Screen International. pp. 19–22.
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