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Carmen Ejogo, Diahann Carroll, Mare Winningham

The story of the extraordinary, controversial thirty-eight-year relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave mistress, Sally Hemings. The teenage Sally begins her unexpected relationship with w...( read more  read more... )idower Thomas Jefferson in Paris where he is serving as the U.S. Ambassador to France. After escorting Jefferson's younger daughter on a trans-Atlantic journey to join him in Paris, Sally is soon exposed to a world quite unlike the one in which she has lived as an illiterate slave in Monticello. While Sally serves as a nanny of sorts, Jefferson provides her with an education, fine clothes and opportunities to experience cultural events. She and her brother, James, who works as Jefferson's chef and was also educated by him, delight in the fact that they are free in France-and are treated with respect. It is under these circumstances that Sally and Jefferson become acquainted with one another and begin an affair that will ultimately lead to scandal.

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Directed by: Charles Haid

Release Date: December 31, 2000

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DVD Release Date: July 5, 2005

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  • homien9
    January 27, 2009
    homien9
    it was a good movie.thomas jeferson's daughter martha was a bitch.i hated her.

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