Product: Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
Rating: 4.0
Under the Tuscan Sun is all about love, family, and friends
Love and family are two important life lessons to grab on to and not let go. Love and family do not always come in conventional packages. Diane Lane plays Frances Mayes a real life writer and recent divorcee. A divorce that she never saw coming. Her friends convince her to go on a tour of Tuscany. On a whim, she buys a Tuscan villa. Immense, and needing lots of work, one has to wonder what came over her. The contractors are a rag-tag group that slowly becomes her friends and her family. Frances immerses herself in the local community. Trying to start over, she falls in love with a stranger. In despair one morning, she wishes that there was family to fill her house, and that a wedding would take place there. Once the repairs on the house are done, the contractors leave. Her very pregnant lesbian friend from the States comes to stay with her. She encourages two young lovers to follow their hearts and get married. Somewhat bleak and depressing at first, you feel her desperate need to find herself, and to feel loved once again. Frances makes a choice, seemingly the oddest choice she could make, but it turns out to be the best one she ever made.