Under the Tuscan Sun

Under the Tuscan Sun

  • Director: Audrey Wells
  • Writer: Frances Mayes,Audrey Wells
  • Countries of origin: United States, Italy
  • Language: English, Italian, Polish, French, Spanish, German
  • Release date: September 26, 2003
  • Sound mix: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Під сонцем Тоскани
  • "Under the Tuscan Sun" is a feature film released by Touchstone Films on September 20, 2003. The film is directed by Audrey Wells and starring Diane Lane , Raoul Bova and Sandra Miju Oh . 
    The film tells the story of the heroine who went to the small Italian city of Tuscany under the arrangement of her friend Patty, and decided to pick up her pen to create, and obtained many sincere friendships. 

    Details

    • Release date September 26, 2003
    • Filming locations Positano, Salerno, Campania, Italy
    • Production companies Touchstone Pictures, Timnick Films, Blue Gardenia Productions

    Box office

    Budget

    $18,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $43,610,723

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $9,751,425

    Gross worldwide

    $58,878,723

    Movie reviews

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    • By Rico 2022-08-07 22:00:00

      Under the Tuscan Sun: Happiness is Actually very Simple

      For various reasons, I wanted to watch this movie many years ago, but I haven't watched it since. I didn't expect that this movie suddenly flashed by during this year's vacation when I didn't go out, and then I watched it. I believe this is a special arrangement. I liked it after watching it. If I watched it a few years ago, I might not have been able to understand so many of the great parts of the movie. At this moment, I have an urge to go to Tuscany that cannot wait. Well, I decided to use...

    • By Dave 2022-08-04 09:51:15

      Under the Tuscan Sun--Keep up Your Enthusiasm

      Don’t think it’s a bad decision just because you suddenly feel like crying. You have to live spherically, in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm and things will come your way. Never lose your childlike enthusiasm; it will serve you well. Coming naturally The feeling of passing the heart is fatal. If everyone says that, it's true everywhere. He was the chef's patron. He was tortured to...

    • By Granville 2022-08-03 12:21:21

      Under the Tuscan Sun--Live Out My True Self And Love

      "In Italian, giving life is also called giving sunshine." Love and life are full of life under the Tuscan sun, no matter how thick the haze has been. If this film taught me anything, it probably taught me to live out my full self and maintain the enthusiasm of my children. Before the good comes, live well, prepare for the arrival, and believe that one day it will come. What impresses me in the whole film is...

    • By Jacklyn 2022-04-24 07:01:15

      be a girl forever

      I downloaded this movie in order to pass the boring five-hour driving time. I marked it as a "women's movie" at the beginning, and after watching the first 10 minutes, my idea was strengthened. It seems to have the same plot as "eat pray love". Of course, big-mouthed beauties are more capable in movies, and they went from Europe to South Asia and Southeast Asia to find themselves.
             The protagonists of the two stories have almost the same setting. In this film, she is a female writer...

    • By Melyna 2022-04-24 07:01:15

      I want to go to sunny Italy

      Tuscany is really beautiful, every place is a photo, it's really hard to imagine Italy without the sun, will it lose all his passion and romance. Francis is really very beautiful when he is confident, completely stunning in the white dress. The young man and the little girl finally said that I was his family and got married. It's a bit ridiculous. I don't believe it will be forever, but the church is really special. I personally think that the broker who sells the house is the true love, and...

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    • By Teagan 2023-09-11 23:56:23

      Italy is so beautiful,i wanna to see u one day....!be a woman,we should love ourselves first,then the true love will...

    • By Kristy 2023-09-06 16:53:00

      OMG, Cristina and Addie are...

    • By Dane 2023-08-27 08:07:41

      A feast of eyeballs, bright and brisk rhythm, and fairytale-like beauty and detachment from...

    • By April 2023-08-14 02:56:58

      Chicken soup for the soul of middle-aged women~ Those who have watched "Grey" will definitely find it very...

    • By Alia 2023-08-07 21:03:34

      Although it shows that the mirror is not a stage, but after all, having a pursuit is the first driving force to...

    Movie plot

    The 35-year-old Frances Meyers ( played by Diane Lane ) is a professor who teaches at a university in San Francisco and an excellent poetess. However, she is facing the double blow of marriage failure and exhaustion of inspiration. Disheartened.
    Meyers’ good friend Patty ( Sandra Miju Oh ) couldn’t bear to watch her haggard, so she made her own way and helped Meyers sign up for a trip to Italy in Tuscany, hoping that Meyers could roam...
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    Casting process

    From the beginning of writing, the director Audrey Wells has identified Diane Lane as the only candidate to play Frances . "Diane is fashionable and lively. Her eyes are shining with the light of wisdom, coupled with the chiseled beauty, her charm is hard to resist." Wells commented.
    When looking for a candidate to play Catherine, a close friend of Frances' boudoir, the casting director recommended the British actor Lindsay Vere Duncan...
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    Evaluation action

    "Under the Tuscan Sun" is more like a beautiful oil painting by a world-famous master, or a three-dimensional animation produced with computer special effects. It is so beautiful that it makes people feel like a world away, and even a little unreal. But it is this kind of unreality that is so beautiful that it is full of strong exotic, foreign flavor and strong Italian humanity.
      People who see the film at first glance will be deeply...
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    Movie quotes

    • Martini: Signora, between Austria and Italy, there is a section of the Alps called the Semmering. It is an impossibly steep, very high part of the mountains. They built a train track over these Alps to connect Vienna and Venice. They built these tracks even before there was a train in existence that could make the trip. They built it because they knew some day, the train would come.

    • Frances: [narrating] So I was now the owner of a villa whose lands it would take two oxen two days to plow. Owning neither an ox nor a plow, I'd have to take their word for that.

    • Patti: There's something strange about these trees. It's like they know.

      Frances: And they know that we know that they know.

      Patti: They're creepy. Creepy Italian trees. Of course, the baby's going to like them cause it's going to be a creepy Italian baby who goes around saying things like 'Ciao mama' and doing that weird backward hand wave thing. Life is strange.