Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
Life offers you a thousand chances ... all you have to do is take one.
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Under the Tuscan Sun rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic
IMDb6.8/10· 64K votes
Rotten Tomatoes62%
Metacritic52%
TMDb6.88/10· 970 votesWith 62% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 6.8/10 on IMDb and 52/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.
About Under the Tuscan Sun
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.
Cast of Under the Tuscan Sun
Diane Lane
as Frances
Lindsay Duncan
as Katherine
Vincent Riotta
as Martini
Giulia Louise Steigerwalt
as Chiara
Raoul Bova
as Marcello
Sandra Oh
as Patti
Pawel Szajda
as Pawel
Roberto Nobile
as Placido
Anita Zagaria
as Fiorella
Evelina Gori
as Nona Cardinale
Kate Walsh
as Grace
Valentine Pelka
as Jerzy
Under the Tuscan Sun facts
- Budget
- $18M
- Box office
- $58.9M
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Audience opinions
What the audience liked
- •Gorgeous Italian countryside cinematography provides escapist visual appeal
- •Themes of personal renewal and self-discovery resonate emotionally
- •Warmth and charm create cozy comfort-watch viewing experience
What the audience disliked
- •Plot resolves too conveniently and feels narratively superficial
- •Underdeveloped character relationships lack genuine emotional depth
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