Under the Tuscan Sun
Life offers you a thousand chances ... all you have to do is take one.
Life offers you a thousand chances ... all you have to do is take one.
Comedy, Romance
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2003
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Frances Mayes, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco, decides to take a tour of Tuscany following a difficult divorce. After impulsively buying a run-down villa in the Italian countryside, she begins to piece her life back together in unexpected ways.
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Runtime:
113 min
Release date:
20 Sep 2003
Country:
US
Languages:
German, Spanish, French, English, Italian, Polish
Budget:
$18,000,000
Revenue:
$58,878,723
Awards:
5 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
The epitome of what a feel-good movie is supposed to be but rarely is, this one is beautiful to look at and life-affirming to think about, and it doesn't have a pretentious bone in its head.
– Rex Reed,
New York Observer,
16 Oct 2003
fresh:
The movie is sweet but deeply suspect: It's like Lost Horizon re-imagined by a realtor.
– David Edelstein,
Slate,
29 Sep 2003
fresh:
... some of the most beautiful photography in any film I've seen this year.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
29 Sep 2003
rotten:
Under the Tuscan Sun pretends to be juicy, but it doesn't allow any dribbles. It purports to make love all over us, but not without laying down lots of paper towels first.
– Stephanie Zacharek,
Salon.com,
28 Sep 2003
rotten:
Has about as much in common with Frances Mayes as it does with Willie Mays, but it does have the marvelous Diane Lane.
– Eleanor Ringel Gillespie,
Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
27 Sep 2003