Product: Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
Rating: 1.0
Absolutely Horrible
I was SO disappointed when I saw this film. I have friends in Tuscany who saw the crew shooting this during production, so I was really looking forward to going and seeing it, since I've never had the pleasure of going to Italy myself. I will give this movie some credit. If I had to rate this movie based on scenery and physical environment I would give it 5 stars all the way! The scenery was breathtaking and gorgeous! However....The rest was just awful! The whole storyline is predictable and it's another example of Hollywood using the same formula at scoring for an audience. This movie had the potential to be good, I just wish Hollywood didn't interfere with the process. Because it is a Hollywood film, it has no depth and every problem had (surprise surprise!) a miracle-fairytale-love-can-conquer-all-happily-ever-after-solution. In typical fashion, the movie is also full of ignorant stereotypes. You have your leading beautiful, blond actress (Diane Lane - who is not a bad actress that's why I feel sorry for her that she had to be in this film), a token Asian friend (because of course you need a minority to be correct in Hollywood's ridiculously politically correct world), and of course Italian people that they stereotyped to death. If you talk to any real Italian or European person they will tell you that this is a disgrace to what Europeans pride themselves on being. Hollywood thinks they know about different cultures and the rest of the world, but after seeing this film, you wonder if any of the people who made this film ever actually had any friends that weren't American.