Director: Audrey Wells
Writers: Frances Mayes (book), Audrey Wells (screen story),
Writers: Frances Mayes (book), Audrey Wells (screen story),
Cast: Diane Lane, Jeffrey Tambor, David Sutcliffe, Kate Walsh, Marco Bonini, Raoul Bova, Dan Bucatinsky, Sandro Dori, Lindsay Duncan, Domenico Gennaro and others
Language: English
Release date: 20 September 2003
Release date: 20 September 2003
Subtitles: English , Spanish Find more
Genres: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Genres: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Once you get over your jealousy of the cast and crew getting the chance to spend so much time in such a beautiful country you can sit back and enjoy everything Under the Tuscan Sun has to offer.
For the guys out there, yes, this is a chick-flick but one you will like, at least I did. Diane Lane plays the freshly divorced San Francisco writer and book critic, Frances Mayes, and is practically forced by her friends to get out of the rut she has currently found herself in.
Frances's lesbian friend Patti (Oh) has found herself pregnant and in love with her partner and it just so happens that the two had been planning a trip to Tuscany, but with the baby on the way have decided they don't want to fly. So they offer Frances the ticket and the chance to experience Tuscany on the "Gay Away" tour, understandably reluctant at first Frances soon gives in and is on her way.
Surrounded by strangers Frances finally gets her chance to do a little soul searching and a stray comment from a chance meeting in the streets of Italy she can't help herself but to be impulsive and trying to shake herself out of her post-breakup funk she pipes up and stops the tour bus as they pass a run-down villa.
It is there that she finds her "Bramasole," which is translated as "something that yearns for the sun" and begins her life Under the Tuscan Sun.
As she renovates her new purchase and tries to pull herself out of her current funk she is almost forced to her breaking point, but soon finds that the lives she touches all seem to shine, and all her wishes are soon realized.
Diane Lane is just as excellent as Tuscany in this film and it helps you remember why she was nominated for an Academy Award® for her performance along side Richard Gere in Unfaithful.
The story is an adaptation of Frances Mayes's autobiographical tale, Under the Tuscan Sun, fused with the imagination of scriptwriter Audrey Wells who said that she "wanted to make an ecstatic movie about heartbreak," and I have to say that she achieved her goal, but just as much as Under the Tuscan Sun touches the sad side of your emotions it also gives you the chance to laugh as you, along with Frances, are invited to meet the people of Tuscany, which are just as enlightening as the landscape itself.
Under the Tuscan Sun is just a much of a hit as was Shakespeare in Love merging the emotional pitfalls of life with a good dose of comic relief giving the audience a movie they will want to see again.
For the guys out there, yes, this is a chick-flick but one you will like, at least I did. Diane Lane plays the freshly divorced San Francisco writer and book critic, Frances Mayes, and is practically forced by her friends to get out of the rut she has currently found herself in.
Frances's lesbian friend Patti (Oh) has found herself pregnant and in love with her partner and it just so happens that the two had been planning a trip to Tuscany, but with the baby on the way have decided they don't want to fly. So they offer Frances the ticket and the chance to experience Tuscany on the "Gay Away" tour, understandably reluctant at first Frances soon gives in and is on her way.
Surrounded by strangers Frances finally gets her chance to do a little soul searching and a stray comment from a chance meeting in the streets of Italy she can't help herself but to be impulsive and trying to shake herself out of her post-breakup funk she pipes up and stops the tour bus as they pass a run-down villa.
It is there that she finds her "Bramasole," which is translated as "something that yearns for the sun" and begins her life Under the Tuscan Sun.
As she renovates her new purchase and tries to pull herself out of her current funk she is almost forced to her breaking point, but soon finds that the lives she touches all seem to shine, and all her wishes are soon realized.
Diane Lane is just as excellent as Tuscany in this film and it helps you remember why she was nominated for an Academy Award® for her performance along side Richard Gere in Unfaithful.
The story is an adaptation of Frances Mayes's autobiographical tale, Under the Tuscan Sun, fused with the imagination of scriptwriter Audrey Wells who said that she "wanted to make an ecstatic movie about heartbreak," and I have to say that she achieved her goal, but just as much as Under the Tuscan Sun touches the sad side of your emotions it also gives you the chance to laugh as you, along with Frances, are invited to meet the people of Tuscany, which are just as enlightening as the landscape itself.
Under the Tuscan Sun is just a much of a hit as was Shakespeare in Love merging the emotional pitfalls of life with a good dose of comic relief giving the audience a movie they will want to see again.
