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Released
1995 · FILM

Jefferson in Paris

“A powerful man torn between his love for one woman and his secret desire for another.”

Directed by
James Ivory
Written by
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Runtime
139 min
BiographyDramaHistory

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.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Isabelle LorenteShot by Pierre LhommeScored by Richard RobbinsDesigned by Guy Claude Francois

Box Office

1995 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.2× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$2.5M

Budget$14.0M
Worldwide gross$2.5M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $2.5M — 100% of worldwide · International: $332 (0%)

Opening weekend: $61K — 2% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $90K — 4% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2 theaters

Also known as

  • Jefferson en Paríses
  • Jefferson à Parisfr

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