Under the Tuscan Sun
14,623
Romance. Comedy
San Francisco writer Frances Mayes (Diane Lane) travels to Italy when her 2 best friends offers her a special gift -- 10 days in Tuscany. Once there, she is captivated by its beauty and warmth, and impulsively buys an aging, but very charming, villa. Fully embracing new friends and local color, she finds herself immersed in a life-changing adventure filled with enough unexpected surprises, laughter, friendship, and romance to restore ... [+]
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United States | Miami Herald | "The whole movie is at once formulaic, clichéd and predictable, yet surprising, engaging and filled with subtle, unexpected details" | POS |
United States | Variety | "Lane transforms this seriocomic saga of a devastated American divorcee who impulsively purchases a Tuscan villa, thereby changing her life, into a spellbinding display of emotional transparency" | NEU |
United States | USA Today | "A fun movie to sit through even when you don't always buy it" | POS |
United States | Rolling Stone | "Just soak up that Tuscan sun and wonder when Lane will get another movie, like 'Unfaithful' or 'A Walk on the Moon,' that will let her really shine." | NEU |
United States | Chicago Reader | "Rises only slightly above the level of a Harlequin romance" | NEU |
United States | Austin Chronicle | "My cynical half hated it, despite the presence of Lane, who is so magnetic that she could prance around the countryside in the absence of plot and still be compelling somehow" | NEU |
United Kingdom | Empire | "Packed with more clichés than a pizza has pepperoni slices, this is truly disappointing, " | NEU |
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