6.5 Score

2003 • 1h 53min • PG-13 • Comedy, Romance

Under the Tuscan Sun

"Life offers you a thousand chances ... all you have to do is take one."

After a rough divorce, Frances, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim she buys Bramasole, a run down villa in the Tuscan countryside and begins to piece her life together starting with the villa and finds that life sometimes has unexpected ways of giving her everything she wanted.

IMDb 6.8

RT 62%

MC 52

Director

Audrey Wells

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Frances Mayes

Audrey Wells

Composer

Christophe Beck

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Diane Lane

Frances

Lindsay Duncan

Katherine

Vincent Riotta

Martini

Giulia Louise Steigerwalt

Chiara

Raoul Bova

Marcello

Sandra Oh

Patti

Pawel Szajda

Pawel

Roberto Nobile

Placido

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Giulia Louise Steigerwalt Chiara

Raoul Bova Marcello

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