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Summary: Good flick
Review: Yes i'm a guy and yes i enjoy chic flicks from time to time,so sue me.This is a good film from Diane Lane(best known for her great performance in Unfaithful)which was also the first flim i recall her having a main staring role.I won't get in to deep to the story but she is a recent divorcy,whom feels she can't go on living in San Fransico,so her 2 gay lesbian friends convince her to go on an all gay trip to tuscan(italy).While there she becomes intrigued by a 300 year old italian home,mind you nothing works,and its in pretty sad shape.So she hires contractor's to help her with her project,and all along the way she runs into various men whom you think she'll develop an attraction to and maybe more but it never pan's out.So thats all i'll give for now,watch for yourself.Although it seems a little slow in places it's an entertaining little piece of film none the less.
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Summary: It was pretty good, but could have been better.
Review: I gave this movie 4 stars because it was a good movie. However, it is quite depressing at times. Diane Lane just can't catch a break. It is kinda slow, but I'm very pleased to have seen it.
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Summary: ON DVD AND VIDEO : UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN
Review: HI i rented the vhs today at hollywood video and i was disapointed in the movie. you had to see it on big screen in the theaters not on small Screen. the scenery and the story line is not the same without the wide and clearer picture. But after all i do give 100% A+ for the acting and the brief sex and pregnancy and everything else that happens. And they don't make fun of the Gay community durring certain scenes with Diane in the Gay Tuscany tour group. very well done and if i was a girl i'd fall for the Italian dude too. but I'm a guy. I Totally LOVE THIS MOVIE but again only on theater screen.
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Summary: Can you star69 Italy?
Review: Frances (Lane) is a writter who makes a living as a book critic. She finds out the hard way that her husband is having an affair and gets a divorce, although she ends up losing her house to her ex (he 'pays' her for about half of it), so she decides to follow a friend Patti's advice (Oh) and travel to Tuscany. While visiting the little town of Cortona, Frances has a "terrible idea" and decides to buy a Villa. The Villa needs a lot of repairs and Francesca (as the locals start calling her) hires a band of misfit Polish workers. As time passes and work on her Villa goes on, Frances' life changes completely. She gets absorbed by the "Italian" way of life - not worrying so much about everything, enjoying life and not lingering on sad memories. This is a fine romantic comedy. Perhaps one of the best of the last couple of years. It's a shame that it wasn't noticed by more people (it's box office was barely over 43MM). Diane Lane shines in her role and Sandra Oh is really funny in the few moments she gets (she is the scene stealer of the film). The rest of the characters are perfectly cast with what I'm assuming to be European actors. But the one thing that makes this movie worth watching (I could go so far as to say owning, but nah!) are the gorgeous Tuscan landscapes. The beautiful little towns, the fabulous Villas, the pebble paved streets, the beautiful flower covered fields. There's also the little town by the sea where Marcello (Frances' love interest) lives. Unfortunately I didn't catch the name, otherwise I'd be taking a plane there right this moment. Keep an eye of cinematographer Geoffrey Simpson (Shine, Little women), because he shot a gorgeous looking movie. The only downside I found is that there's a couple of scenes in which the movies turns to magical realism. I didn't feel those scenes fit with the rest of the movie. Maybe it's just me.
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Summary: the smile on your face will not leave the entire movie
Review: what a wonderful movie. it just made me want to move to italy and become catholic, it had a pretty score, and very delightful characters, and handyman "pawel" is so so HOT. it starts out so sad, i mean, she not only finds out here husband is cheating on her, but he divorces her and takes alimony aka her house. you feel like she is going to die, and i have been there where you have been dumped on so badly, but a good choice she made by going to italy, becuase everything turns from extremely bad to very good, the smile on my face didn't leave the entire time from when she went to italy, and what a wonderful way of putting "gay issues" into a movie, it even shows wonderful san francisco for the first 20 minutes of the film. i saw this movie 4 times in the theater, and i am so so so excited for the dvd to be released.
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Summary: Are you serious?
Review: As a guy who watched this movie with some girls, I came in knowing it was a "chick flick," but that didn't scare me off too bad. I've seen a few chick flicks and they're not too bad. This was different though. Even the girls didn't like it. The writing was terrible. "What is it about love that just makes us crazy?" I mean, come on, they say that kind of thing on "Saved by the Bell." While the setting was very beautiful, I found myself only for a few minutes REALLY wanting to go to Italy. There was still a lot more that could be done with the setting. And even though it is a movie and movies aren't always realistic, you do have to wonder where she gets her money and what she was doing before she left and if she had to get a license or something to "suddenly" buy a home in a foreign country. I don't know, there were a few okay moments here and there, but what really ruined this movie was at the end (I won't give it all away) everything seemed set to be over and suddenly there were three more minutes to the movie that I feel like kind of destroyed the whole story. Sorry, a little vague, but this one almost earned two stars.
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Summary: What's in a Name?
Review: I have not seen the movie, nor read the book. Reliable friends of mine HAVE read the book and then seen the movie and been terribly upset. I don't know how the movie would stand by itself, but readers of the book say it is not even the same story. Also, from what I have heard, UTTS movie is neither morally, texturally nor as beautifully filmed as Enchanted April. I resent poor copies being advertised as of similar value.
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Summary: Tuscany and Diane Lane...both "two"beautiful to miss
Review: Neither my husband nor I had read Frances Mayes' books about Tuscany. I was interested in the movie as soon as I'd seen a preview trailer last summer. After visiting the Touchstone Pictures Official Website I really wanted to see it. My husband prefers to see movies at home on DVD but I've always loved going to the theater. He thoughtfully offered to take me to see Under the Tuscan Sun at our local theater. We are both glad that we went! This movie beautifully captures the warmth of the Italian people, the stunning countryside, and how a person can triumph over heartbreak with the love and support of their friends. I've never been to Italy and haven't quite understood my husband's complete infatuation with it but after seeing this movie I was almost prepared to move there because it is so beautifully captured in the film. Diane Lane portrays Frances Mayes who, in the movie, is recently divorced and has been totally devastated by it. (Whereas the real Frances and her future husband, Edward, made the trip to Tuscany where they fell in love with and purchased the villa, Bramasole.) Two friends give her the 10-day trip to Tuscany hoping to help Frances see that she can survive without her husband. The parallels between the coming together of Bramasole and Frances' own healing is the obvious message. She sees Bramasole as the center of her well being. As she develops true and lasting friendships and turns heartbreak into the fulfillment of her dreams, that is exactly what it is. It's a movie that is not without its flaws but it leaves you with a good feeling after you've seen it and a feeling of anticipation to see it again.
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Summary: Diane Lane was totally wasted in this lousy movie
Review: except diane lane's wonderful performance, this is a very stupid movie with bad storyline, script, editing, and directing inside out. what a waste of diane lane. so many hyped praises of tuscan, but thru the lousy script, it only gave a run-down, shabby, poor country side impression. the romance? give me a break! when francis cried out that she needed to get laid, did i find myself watching the pathetic 5th season's 'sex & city'? the whole story is in such a plain, simple, cliched, moronic setting and plot. there's nothing you could get out of this tasteless movie except, again, the wonderful performance of diane lane. that's all, folks.
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Summary: Classic Film
Review: What ever is the problem with the people who do not appreciate this wonderful film. They really need to lighten up. Realism this film is not but whats wrong with that? Sometimes we all need a couple hours of escape from this terrible world and it is a terrible world. But occasionally there are some bright moments and this film is one of them. Also check out Dame Maggie Smith's turn in the Tuscan sun in My House in Umbria. Diane Lane should have been Oscar nominated but this film but this film is consolation enough for her and for us. It is sublime.
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