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Under the Tuscan Sun
Directed by
Audrey Wells
PG-13
2003
1h 53m
Comedy
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Romance
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6.8
62%
78%
6.9
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Frances Mayes, a 35-year-old San Francisco writer, gets a divorce that leaves her with terminal writer's block and depression. Later, she decides to buy a house in Tuscany in order to change her life.
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Cast of Under the Tuscan Sun
Diane Lane
Frances
Lindsay Duncan
Katherine
Vincent Riotta
Martini
Giulia Louise Steigerwalt
Chiara
Raoul Bova
Marcello
Sandra Oh
Patti
Pawel Szajda
Pawel
Roberto Nobile
Placido
Anita Zagaria
Fiorella
Evelina Gori
Nona Cardinale
Kate Walsh
Grace
Valentine Pelka
Jerzy
Saša Vulićević
Zbignew
Claudia Gerini
Signora Raguzzi
Mario Monicelli
Old Man with Flowers
Massimo Sarchielli
Nino
Geoffrey Rivas
Head Mover
Sean Kaplan
Seat Mate
Nuccio Siano
Gianni
David Sutcliffe
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Under the Tuscan Sun Ratings & Reviews
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Not much for teens in this book adaptation.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
And while the movie gets a bit too cute and cloying at times, especially when it dips into tired sentimentality, Lane carries it all marvelously, lighting up the screen with one of the year's best performances.
Observer
Rex Reed
The epitome of what a feel-good movie is supposed to be but rarely is, this one is beautiful to look at and life-affirming to think about, and it doesn't have a pretentious bone in its head.
Slate
David Edelstein
The movie is sweet but deeply suspect: It's like Lost Horizon re-imagined by a realtor.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
... some of the most beautiful photography in any film I've seen this year.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Under the Tuscan Sun pretends to be juicy, but it doesn't allow any dribbles. It purports to make love all over us, but not without laying down lots of paper towels first.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
Has about as much in common with Frances Mayes as it does with Willie Mays, but it does have the marvelous Diane Lane.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
It is a glorious refreshment to spend time with characters who aren't twenty-something eye bait, someone's virtuous, whiny wife or other reductive archetypes.
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
It's like a music video of Helen Reddy's 'I Am Woman' filmed in the Chevy Chase Pottery Barn.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Despite the formulaic plot, which seems to belong on the Lifetime channel, Wells has a knack for witty dialogue that keeps things moving along.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The only real downside to the film is what it's likely to do for Italian tourism. After this, the deluge.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
[Wells] rushes the film ... from episode to episode -- some of which work and some of which don't.
New York Times
Elvis Mitchell
Eminently superficial, although Ms. Wells keeps the movie going with a steady, commanding hand and casts it with an actress who can deftly downshift from serene to sodden.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Wells ... serves up a comfort-food buffet of fantasies.
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
It's because of Lane's performance that we don't discount Frances as a silly thing with a weakness for rustic charm, big-eyed kittens and poetic tableaux.
Los Angeles Times
Manohla Dargis
The movie pretends it's peddling a vision of 'you-go-girl' independence in which it doesn't remotely believe.
Houston Chronicle
Eric Harrison
A touching story that includes large helpings of humor and charm.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
It may be a fairy tale, but it's one worth believing in.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
Likable and flawed in its own right.
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