Under the Tuscan Sun

Pros: beautiful scenery, Diane Lane
Cons: the story

I generally hate movies which depict the be-all-to-end-all of a woman’s life as finding “a good man” to settle down with. It just seems to me that I want my daughters to be happy, with or without a partner in their lives, and showing ...

Pros: Diane Lane, the location shots, and some very good looking men.
Cons: Well, it's light, but gorgeous.

Somehow, Italy seems to conjure in most people's minds the images of art, love, racecars, and food. When a newly divorced writer, Frances (Diane Lane) finds that her two friends have bought her a trip to Italy to lift her spirits, we get to see a ...

Pros: Lane and Oh. Entertaining movie. Beautiful scenery in Italy.
Cons: Promoted as a romantic comedy when it really wasn't.

I’ve seen and enjoyed several movies that Diane Lane has made over the years. She received a lot of critical acclaim for her performance in Un faithful, including an Oscar nomination. She followed that movie with ...

Pros: Lane and Oh, cinematography
Cons: characters not fully developed to their potential

Friday nights usually means movie night with a friend at my house because we're both beat by the end of the week. God willing, I’m usually out of work by 5 on Fridays. She’s a nurse, so rotates shifts most weeks and sometimes ends up working ...

Pros: Touching, emotional, well-acted.
Cons: None.

My husband and I are movie addicts. There, I've said it. Out in the open. No more hiding behind closed doors as we watch the same movies over and over and over again. And I do mean over AND over. There is a group of our favorite movies that we have ...

Pros: Diane Lane, Cinematography...
Cons: Slow-moving script, lack of focus thanks to the director...

Preamble I'm excited to be home. For two weeks, I've been everywhere but here which has put a huge cramp into my theater-going experience. I had no clue what was even out this week. Once I caught up, my first choice was to see ...

Pros: Diane Lane. Sandra Oh. Ravishing locations.
Cons: Cliche upon cliche. Unfocused narrative.

I have had a chance to read the treatment for the proposed musical version of The Satanic Verses and have decided that it's just not the project for me. It seems to take place predominantly in some third world country and I just don't think my ner ...

Pros: Good messages, Diane Lane, Beautiful scenery, good supporting actors.
Cons: Predictable and a little slow for some viewers.

Frances (Diane Lane) has a good life. A productive writer, a good reviewer, and married to a man she loves, she is celebrating a first novel by a student as the movie opens. "Take your bad ideas and work with them" is the advice she gave him ...

Pros: Decent characters and acting
Cons: Telegraphs whole story, Loses direction and purpose in the middle

For several months now, my mother has been bugging me to watch the movie "Under The Tuscan Sun," though she and I share little in the way of cinematic tastes. This could be a side effect of me generally having taste and her enjoying movies for ...

Pros: Some of the cast is nice to look at.
Cons: Lots of pieces don’t add up or live up to the hype

THE PLOT I am a romantic at heart and generally enjoy any chick-flick, romance type movie. Under the Tuscan Sun certainly seemed to classify as that so when I had a chance to see it I watched with interest. Especially because I am a fan of ...

Pros: Diane Lane; la signorina Borgese desidera comprare una sottana e delle calze, non e vero?
Cons: Si, ed ho anche bisogno di una panciera e di un reggipetto

"How can you say no to Tuscany?" How can one indeed after seeing the stunning Italian visuals in Audrey Wells' new film UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN, although viewers may feel less inclined to say the same for the movie itself, despite a wonderful star performanc ...

Pros: The Acting
Cons: It's just not the book.

I read the book behind this title, and in fact, all that's left is the title, the house, Tuscany, and the Polish workers which is true to the narrative. The rest - pure fiction! And, it's not a literary fictitious work. It would be difficult to do ...

Pros: Diane Lane, Italy, engaging story
Cons: Chick flick, somewhat predictable

Although Under The Tuscan Sun is the very epitome of the term chick flick, it is a film as charming and romantic as the city it is set in. And, for the guys, we have the beautiful and expressive Diane Lane cast in the lead role as a woman struggling to ...

Pros: Acting, the plot, wonderful characters, beautiful scenes of Italy
Cons: none

Under the Tuscan Sun is based on a true story…of Frances Mayes’ moving to Italy and finding a new life there. Based on her best selling book, the movie has taken some significant liberties with the book. The first example is that she is a divorced woman ...

Pros: luscious scenery in Tuscany
Cons: every man wants her. feel sorry for her? no way.

Under The Tuscan Sun 2/5 Attractive writer finds out her husband is cheating on her with a younger woman. She ends up on holidays in Tuscany, Italy. Chances upon a villa for sale, buys it and begins a new life, hoping for a wedding and a family. ...