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Paris, France | France
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Best Sound Editing Music Foreign Domestic | 1996 | Gerard
Budget 14,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 2,474,000 USD
Gwyneth Paltrow's real life mother, Blythe Danner, played Martha Jefferson in 1776 (1972) the mother of her character. Nolte and Danner also played husband and wife in The Prince of Tides (1991).
Jack Nicholson was considered to star as Thomas Jefferson.
Christopher Reeve was considered by director James Ivory to play Jefferson, but studio pushed for the more bankable Nick Nolte for the lead.
The film accepts at face value the 1873 statement by Madison Hemings ( James Earl Jones ) that he and the other five children of Sally Hemings were all fathered by Thomas Jefferson. However, at the time this film was released this assertion was much more controversial. Three years after this film was released, extensive DNA testing on Sally Hemings' many descendants strongly confirmed that Jefferson was almost certainly the father of all six. (The tests were done in 1998-1999, and the results published in 2000.) As of 2022, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which is in charge of Jefferson's historical estate in Montecello, accepts the findings, while the Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society (founded shortly after the DNA study) disputes the conclusions.
Sally Hemings' gown made from the patterned gray fabric selected by Thomas Jefferson and Mrs. Cosway is the same costume worn by Jessica Oyelowo (Sarah) in Sleepy Hollow (1999), and by Billie Piper (Fanny Price) during the play rehearsal scene in Mansfield Park (2007).
"Maria Cosway: That's how it is here. People play at love. It's not serious. It is different in Italy. There, we kill for it!"
"Thomas Jefferson: I kept having a debate between my head and my heart. Maria Cosway: Which in your case, the head always wins. Thomas Jefferson: Not this time. My poor head was simply whirled around by my unruly heart. Maria Cosway: Oh-dear-God. Thomas Jefferson: It kept telling me I love the lady and will continue to love her forever. If she were on one side of the globe and I on the other, I would pierce through the whole mass of the world to reach her."
