Product Description

An attourney moves to Tuscany and purchases a villa after a heart-wrenching divorce.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 22-AUG-2006
Media Type: DVD

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5475 in DVD
• Brand: LANE,DIANE
• Released on: 2004-02-03
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 113 minutes

Amazon.com
Though she made her first movie at the age of 13, Diane Lane has only blossomed into a true star in her 30s, and Under the Tuscan Sun marks her full flowering. After a brutal divorce, Frances (Lane, Unfaithful, A Walk on the Moon) is persuaded by her friend Patti (Sandra Oh) to take a tour of Italy--where, on a whim that she hopes will rescue her from her desperate unhappiness, she buys a rundown villa and sets out to renovate it. Along the way, she gets advice from a former Fellini actress, meets a scrumptious Italian lover, and helps support Patti after her own relationship derails. The conclusion of Under the Tuscan Sun holds no surprises, but the deft turns and observations along the way are delightful. Lane carries the film effortlessly but surely, exuding both heartbreak and re-awakening passion. --Bret Fetzer

From The New Yorker
A soft-core renovation fantasy for educated women. Frances (Diane Lane), a San Francisco writer and teacher dumped by her adulterous husband, goes on a bus tour of Tuscany and falls in love with a crumbling old villa. After many blissfully undramatic episodes-an ancient wall falls down, a toilet mysteriously emits boiling water-the house gets scraped, plastered, painted, and gardened back into shape. It's Frances's life, of course, that really needs work. Luckily, in Rome, she finds Marcello (Raoul Bova)-yard-wide shoulders, blue eyes, all of Italian manhood in a white suit-and drives off with him in his Alfa Romeo convertible. There's a lot more of this sort of harmless, pleasant, inconsequential stuff, with much of it redeemed by the good humor of the writer-director Audrey Wells, who serves up clichés and makes fun of them at the same time. With Sandra Oh as a sharp-tongued Bay Area lesbian friend of Frances's who arrives in Tuscany to have a baby. -David Denby
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

wonderful movie
Just watched this on tv (Perth, Australia) and I must say for a movie that I had never heard of, it's fantastic.
This film is a masterpiece of a genre rarley seen anymore. Bravo, Viva!!!
By the way, i'm going to order it on Amazon right now.

DVD
LOVE this movie, that there's a "three-story" plot involved is terrific. You get to watch all of the characters grow within their own stories. The scenery is STUNNING--I am an arm-chair traveller and so this was right up my alley--not to mention . . . totally ROMANTICAL! Will watch over and over.

I love this movie
I saw this movie a long time ago on tv. I loved it so much that I went
out and bought it. This movie is not for everyone. But the thought of
starting over in a very new (beautiful) place is a fantasy for most,
including me. Who wouldn't want to start fresh after a huge upsetting
ordeal? I watch it every now and then. Check it out, you might like it.