Under the Tuscan Sun (film)
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| Directed by | Audrey Wells |
| Produced by | Tom Sternberg, Audrey Wells |
| Written by | Frances Mayes (book), Audrey Wells |
| Starring | Diane Lane, Sandra Oh, Lindsay Duncan |
| Distributed by | Touchstone Pictures |
| Release date(s) | September 20, 2003 |
| Running time | 113 min |
| Language | English |
| Budget | ~ US$ 18,000,000 |
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Under the Tuscan Sun is a 2003 film directed by Audrey Wells based on the 1996 memoir Under the Tuscan Sun by American author Frances Mayes.
[edit] Plot
- Tagline: Life offers you a thousand chances ... all you have to do is take one.
Frances Mayes (Diane Lane) is a San Francisco writer whose seemingly perfect life has just taken an unexpected detour. She finds out at a party that she's hosting, from a writer whose book she had given a bad review on, that her husband has been cheating on her. Her recent divorce has left her depressed and with terminal writer's block, and her best friend Patti (Sandra Oh), a lesbian who is expecting a child, is beginning to think she might never recover. Patti convinces Frances to take an Italian vacation, to Tuscany, but it's on a gay tour. At first she refuses, but then after being in her new gloomy apartment, she decides that it is a good idea to get away for a little while after all. In Tuscany, while stopping in a small town she sees a notice about a villa for sale. Then while the passengers are back on the tour bus, the bus has to stop to let a herd of sheeps pass, and Frances realizes that they've stopped infront of the very villa that she had seen for sell, and she believes it's a sign. She has the driver stop and she gets off the bus. In a series of serendipitous events she becomes the owner of a lovely yet dilapidated villa in beautiful Tuscany, Italy, because the owner of the house, an old Italian woman, who also believes deeply in signs believed that she was meant to buy the house (a pigeon pooped on Frances' head, which to the old lady was considered good luck). From this point her life begins anew with a variety of interesting characters and odd but gentle souls.
She assembles a crew of Polish immigrants to repair the house. Over time, she welcomes her San Francisco pregnant best friend Patti, who has arrived in Tuscany unexpectedly, because her partner had left her. She befriends her Italian neighbors, who have a young daughter, and she develops a relationship with her Polish workers, and the realtor who sold her her house, besides from an eccentric blonde woman in the area, and even meets a romantic interest, Marcello. But things don't work out with Marcello, and Frances is about to give up on happiness, when two young lovers come to her for help. Eventually, she finds the fulfillment she was searching for in a wedding at the villa, where she also meets an American writer who is traveling in Tuscany. The movie ends with the possibility of a new love in her life.
[edit] Cast
- Diane Lane – Frances Mayes
- Sandra Oh – Patti
- Lindsay Duncan – Katherine
- Raoul Bova – Marcello
- Vincent Riotta – Martini
- Mario Monicelli – Old man with flowers
- Roberto Nobile – Placido
- Kate Walsh – Grace
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