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Audiences rate it 12 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb5.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes33%
Metacritic45/100
Audiences rate it 12 points higher than critics do.
50 audience votes
Key crew
- James IvoryDirector
- Ruth Prawer JhabvalaWriter
- Richard RobbinsOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Nick NolteThomas Jefferson
- Greta ScacchiMaria Cosway
- Thandiwe NewtonSally Hemings
- Gwyneth PaltrowPatsy Jefferson
- Jean-Pierre AumontD'Hancarville
- Simon CallowRichard Cosway
- Seth GilliamJames Hemings
- James Earl JonesMadison Hemings
- Michael LonsdaleLouis XVI
- Nancy MarchandMadame Abbesse
- Charlotte de TurckheimMarie Antoinette
- Lambert WilsonMarquis de Lafayette