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Overview

User Rating:
6.7/10   13,141 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Frances Mayes (book)
Audrey Wells (screen story)
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Release Date:
26 September 2003 (USA) more
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Tagline:
The Only Thing More Surprising Than The Chance She's Taking...Is Where It's Taking Her more
Plot:
While on vacation, a just-divorced writer buys a villa in Tuscany on a whim, hoping it will be the start of a change for the better in her life. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 4 nominations more
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(17 articles)
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Diane Lane ... Frances

Sandra Oh ... Patti
Lindsay Duncan ... Katherine

Raoul Bova ... Marcello
Vincent Riotta ... Martini
Mario Monicelli ... Old Man with Flowers
Roberto Nobile ... Placido
Anita Zagaria ... Fiorella
Evelina Gori ... Nona Cardinale

Giulia Steigerwalt ... Chiara

Pawel Szajda ... Pawel
Valentine Pelka ... Jerzy
Sasa Vulicevic ... Zbignew
Massimo Sarchielli ... Nino

Claudia Gerini ... Signora Raguzzi
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Sotto il sole della Toscana (Italy)
Sous le soleil de Toscane (Canada: French title) (France) [fr]
Bajo el sol de Toscana (Argentina) [es]
Bajo el sol de la Toscana (Spain) [es]
Pod sloncem Toskanii (Poland) [pl]
Sob o Sol da Toscana (Brazil) [pt]
Toscana päikese all (Estonia) [et]
Toscanan auringon alla (Finland) [fi]
Under Toscanas sol (Sweden) [sv]
Unter der Sonne der Toskana (Germany) [de]
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for sexual content and language.
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113 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Trivia:
Writer/director Audrey Wells said that when she was writing the script, the only actress she thought of to play Patti was Sandra Oh. They had worked together on Guinevere (1999). One of Oh's guests on the Italian location was her fiancé Alexander Payne. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Patti is lying on the bed in Frances' house, she is lying on her left side with a pillow under her head. In the next shot, she's lying supine, then reaches for the pillow to turn on her left side. more
Quotes:
Patti: Frances bought a house in Tuscany! And you're going to live there alone?
Frances: Well, I'm not there alone. I'm there with bugs.
Patti: Ew.
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34 out of 49 people found the following comment useful.
Gorgeous Eye Candy, 15 February 2004
Author: PrairieCal from USA

I love this movie. I don't care if it was a "chic flick" or what. Whatever, it was so breathtakingly beautiful that anyone should be entranced by it's sheer visual assault on the senses. When you add great performances by a fine cast, and an interesting story, you can't loose. Who wouldn't love to escape for an hour or so to the Italian Sun? Even the ending was realistic.

This is the second movie I've seen lately that took place in a beautiful countryside Italian Villa. The other, "My House in Umbria" was equally eye catching and enjoyable.

But I think I've reached the point of satiation. If I have to see one more movie where the lead actress has nothing to do but make friends, remodel her gorgeous Tuscan Villa, eat gourmet food on her sunny patio in the garden, have no money worries, and not work, I think I might snap. I pray daily that Diane Lane and Maggie Smith will one day be slinging hash in a Barstow truckstop and experience the real world.

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