A writer impulsively buys a villa in Tuscany in order to change her life.A writer impulsively buys a villa in Tuscany in order to change her life.A writer impulsively buys a villa in Tuscany in order to change her life.
- Director
- Writers
- Frances Mayes(book "Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy")
- Audrey Wells(screen story)
- Stars
Top credits
- Director
- Writers
- Frances Mayes(book "Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy")
- Audrey Wells(screen story)
- Stars
- Awards
- 5 nominations
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Giulia Louise Steigerwalt
- Chiaraas Chiara
- (as Giulia Steigerwalt)
- Director
- Writers
- Frances Mayes(book "Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy")
- Audrey Wells(screen story) (screenplay)
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
- All cast & crew
Storyline
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. —Huggo
- Taglines
- The Only Thing More Surprising Than The Chance She's Taking...Is Where It's Taking Her
- Genres
- Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
- Rated PG-13 for sexual content and language
- Parents guide
Did you know
- TriviaZeus the art model was fully nude during filming. Digital underwear was added in post-production to avoid an R-rating.
- GoofsWhen Signor Martini is next to the fireplace telling Frances about the train tracks through the mountains, the matchbox behind him moves around the top of the fire place.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Late Night with Conan O'Brien: Diane Lane/Wanda Sykes/Jonny Lang (2003)
- SoundtracksSaturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night in the Week)
Written by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne
Performed by The Oscar Peterson Trio
Courtesy of The Verve Music Group
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
Top review
Attractive!
It's a story about how people who want things badly rush themselves into experiences that are worse than their previous ones. It's a good movie with several deep messages. The movie also has a certain atmosphere that makes you feel as if you are in Tuscan on a trip yourself. I have to disagree with the view that says you need to be in love to enjoy the movie. All what you need is some depth and you will definitely relate to the protagonist. She happens to be healing from a failing marriage but you can relate to her story if you are dealing with any kind of problems in your life.
There is one specific part of the movie which I truly like is the one where she defends the love story of a young couple though she was hurt. This shows that even though she failed she didn't cease to believe in love. She succeeded in going out of the egocentricity of a person who usually hates good for people if his life is not working successfully.
There is one specific part of the movie which I truly like is the one where she defends the love story of a young couple though she was hurt. This shows that even though she failed she didn't cease to believe in love. She succeeded in going out of the egocentricity of a person who usually hates good for people if his life is not working successfully.
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- Nov 18, 2009
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- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Dưới Nắng Trời Tuscan
- Filming locations
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $18,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $43,610,723
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $9,751,425
- Sep 28, 2003
- Gross worldwide
- $58,878,723
- Runtime1 hour 53 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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