Under The Tuscan Sun

– After a rough divoce, Frances, a 35 year old book editor from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany ..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
6.80 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 53 Minutes
Release Year:
2003
Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)

After a rough divoce, Frances, a 35 year old book editor from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim she buys Bramasole, a run down villa in the Tuscan countryside and begins to piece her life together starting with the villa and finds that life sometimes has unexpected ways of giving her everything she wanted.

Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) - Trailer

Release Date:

26 Sep 2003

Language:

English, Italian, Polish, French, Spanish, German

MPAA Content-Rating:
PG-13 – Parents Strongly Cautioned

Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. Parents are urged to be cautious. Some material may be inappropriate for pre-teenagers.

Director:

Audrey Wells

Writer:

Frances Mayes (book), Audrey Wells (screen story), Audrey Wells (screenplay)

Main Actors:

Diane Lane, Sandra Oh, Lindsay Duncan, Raoul Bova

Plot:

Frances Mayes is a San Francisco-based literature professor, literary reviewer and author, who is struggling in writing her latest book. Her outwardly perfect and stable life takes an unexpected turn when her husband files for divorce. He wants to marry the woman with whom he is having an affair. Frances supported her husband financially as he was writing his own book, and he sues her for alimony despite her financial difficulties. And he wants to keep the house. Frances eventually accepts her best friend Patti's offer of a vacation, a gay tour of Tuscany which Patti and her lesbian partner Grace originally purchased for themselves before Patti found out that she is pregnant. The gift is a means to escape dealing with the divorce, from which Patti feels Frances may never recover emotionally without some intervention. Feeling that Patti's assessment may be correct in that she has too much emotional baggage ever to return to San Francisco, Frances, while in Tuscany, impulsively ditches the tour to purchase an aged villa, which ends up being a fixer-upper. Frances has many obstacles in eking out a productive and happy life in her new surroundings, that happy life which she hopes will eventually include rediscovering romantic love. In a discussion with sympathetic real estate agent Signor Martini, Frances outlines what emotionally she wants to accomplish with the villa, despite none of those items in a substantive material sense currently being in her life. In response, Martini tells her the story of a set of railroad tracks that were laid between Vienna and Venice before an engine that could make the trek being built, a train which now regularly travels the route. The question becomes whether Frances, in going through the process, will be laying another Vienna to Venice track, and if so whether that end product emotionally will be exactly as she envisions.

Awards:

Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 4 nominations.

Gross profit:

$43,452,354

Production:

Buena Vista Pictures

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
61%
Metacritic:
52%