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Jefferson in Paris, Touchstone Pictures and Merchant Ivory Productions ; producer, Ismail Merchant ; director, James Ivory ; writer, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

eng

videorecording

MPAA rating: PG-13, for mature theme, some images of violence, and a bawdy puppet show

Jefferson in Paris

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Touchstone Pictures and Merchant Ivory Productions ; producer, Ismail Merchant ; director, James Ivory ; writer, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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In the mid-1780s, widower Thomas Jefferson replaces Benjamin Franklin as the U.S. representative to French regents Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. He tries to resist the beautiful Mrs. Cosway. Also in Paris is Jefferson's daughter Patsy; when another daughter dies back in Virginia, Jefferson sends for his youngest, who brings along her slave, Sally Hemings, then 15, whom he also finds irresistible

general

live action