Caption: LEFT: Nick Nolte (left) stars as American political leader Thomas Jefferson, whose five year residence in France as ambassador to the court of Louis XVI, is highlighted by his relationship with the beautiful Maria Cosway (Greta Scacchi, right) a sophisticated European woman with whom Jefferson falls deeply in love, in the new Merchant Ivory production, ?Jefferson in Paris.? RIGHT: Enamored of European culture and pursuing the study of architecture while serving his country in France, Thomas Jefferson (Nolte) savored all the refinements of the mind and sense that Paris in the 18th century had to offer. Jean-Pierre Aumont, Simon Callow, Seth Gilliam, James Earl Jones, Michael Lonsdale, Nancy Marchand, Thandie Newton, Gwyneth Paltrow, Charlotte De Turckheim and Lambert Wilson also star. Touchstone Pictures and Merchant Ivory Productions present ?Jefferson in Paris.? Directed by James Ivory, produced by Ismail Merchant, written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, the film?s executive producers are Donald Rosenfeld and Paul Bradley. Co-producer is Humber Balsan. Buena Vista Pictures distributes.Nick Nolte is miscast as Thomas Jefferson in Merchant-Ivory?s ?Jefferson in Paris.?.
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