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Summary: Terrible
Review: Typical Hollywood movie trying to push off moral values that the average american does not believe in. This movie is slow and does not even make much sense at all. Hopefully most people do not live like this and if they do they would be considered weird.
Do not waste your time with this movie!
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Summary: Propoganda
Review: This is another movie in the long line of movies trying to shove homosexuality down our throats. Conveniently they don't mention the premis anywhere, making it look like a normal movie that you might like to rent. If you have any morals at all, don't waste your money on the gay agenda.
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Summary: God help us
Review: Just saw this on DVD with a friend. We're both gals in our forties and divorced, so as chicks of the target demographic, we were supposed to have swooned over it. But as every whopper of hugely unlikely scenario was put over on us (such as, for starters, her staggering expenditures on a writer-who-never-writes' income and her snapping up a decayed villa without bothering to walk through it first), and every flattery of 40-something vanity was heaped on to the point of utter derangement, our outrage mounted. What an imbecilic, pandering fraud this movie is! So smug and enraptured with its Childlike Brilliance and Use of Symbols. The dialog is so flat footed, they should have had a podiatrist on the set--and every character is a cliche of a cliche of a stereotype. Diane Lane has four facial expressions, employed in turn: bravely hurt, bemused, cutely stammering, and I forget the other. My friend and I were hooting with laughter as we predicted the next plot surprise. But another reviewer kindly supplied the adjective I was groping for as gratefully shut down the TV: "godawful." No wonder guys think we're aliens. PS. If you want to see Tuscany, try Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing.
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Summary: pleasant, heartwarming story.
Review: This movie was about what I expected: colorful characters, pleasant interactions, lifes ups and downs, and lots of gorgeous scenery. It wasn't deeply introspective or laugh out loud funny, just a nice, entertaining escape. I have to wonder about people who complain that it doesn't make sense to buy a house in a country where she barely speaks the language. Of course it doesn't and that's the point. How many of us fantasize about getting rid of all our stuff and starting over in a new place? This is a movie that's supposed to entertain and be interesting. If she did the wise thing, the same people would complain that the movie was mundane and pointless. If you don't expect a roaring comedy or a completely unique story, then I think most will enjoy this movie.
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Summary: Love is blind
Review: Diana Lane is delightful in this story of finding love.Frances(Lane) to get over her divorce her bestfriend Patti (Sanda Oh) gives her a free trip to Italy to start over.As she's in Italy she decides to stay,she buys a home that needs fixing as her life does,she starts to rebuild the home and her life looking for love and a new start. Which Frances does get in time.You'll find love when least explicit,watch for the sign's and everything will be alright.I tip my hat to this one.Enjoy!!!
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Summary: Wonderful Adaptation
Review: I knew when I saw the movie that it was not a faithful adaptation of the book (Francis Mayes even writes about the fictionalized screenplay in newer versions of her book). However, the resulting story comes out fantastic, and I thoroughly enjoyed how the director brought pieces of the reality into the fictionalized story. Ultimately, both the movie and the book are about letting go of the past, and living for the future. If you've been through a disillusionment, and you are working to redefine who you are and where you want to go in life, then you will enjoy both (Though I would recommend reading the book first). It also wouldn't hurt to be a woman in your thirties or older. In both the book and the movie, Francis Mayes comes out of a divorce looking for a new way to define her life. In both the book and the movie, she buys a Villa in Tuscany, and refurbishes it, learning about her new country and herself in the process, and falling in love with both. The big difference between the book and the movie (and don't read further if you don't want to know) is Ed. In the book, she and Ed have started dating when they buy the villa. In the Movie, she meets Ed at the end. I thought it was a clever way to wrap the movie up.
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Summary: Pretty good!
Review: I liked this movie...it was more serious than I expected but had a sweet storyline. Wasent like the same ol' love story stuff.
Also makes ya wanna visit Tuscany!
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Summary: Ho-Hum
Review: One of the biggest disappointments I have seen in some time. My main complaint is when I see a theatrical trailer for a movie, and that rrailer implies the movie is a comedy, and then the movie does not deliver what the trailer seems to have promised, I hit the ceiling. There are characters in this movie who's inclusion makes no sense since they don't advance the plot and don't really come off as amusing either. The whole premise of buying a house in a foreign country in which you barely speak the language makes no sense either. I don't know -- maybe it's me -- it seems like the time would have been better spent watching a travel film on Tuscany. Ho-HUM!!
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Summary: A couple of positives. . .
Review: . . .but not nearly enough to counter the negatives. First the positives: 1) Some brilliant photography. One just can't get around this. 2) Some truly likeable characters and character development -- especially several of the minor characters. There! That is two stars worth! Negatives: 1) Spotty directing, which offsets the quality of the photography 2) No earthly resemblance at all to the (true) book from which the story is supposed to have been taken 3) A boring, and over-the-top gay agenda (along with any one of a number of similar "far-left" issues, poorly cobbled together 4) A view of the Virgin Mary, which, while not openly portrayed offensively in the film, is bound, nonetheless to offend In short, the bad outweighs the good. Skip this one.
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Summary: Nothing Like the book.
Review: Although the movie was cute I was a bit disapointed as I expected it to be like the book. Not even close.
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