Under the Tuscan Sun
Under the Tuscan Sun is a 2003 American romantic comedy-drama written, produced, and directed by Audrey Wells and starring Diane Lane. Based on Frances Mayes' 1996 memoir of the same name, the film is about a recently divorced writer who buys a villa in Tuscany on a whim, hoping it will lead to a change in her life. Lane received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical for her performance.
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| Screenplay by | Audrey Wells
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| Running time | 113 minutes
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| Country | United States
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| Language | English
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| Budget | $18 million
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| Box office | $58.9 million
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Frances: Yes?
Marcello: I am going to make love all over you!
Frances: Okay.
- The original memoir is quite different from the film: the real Frances bought a house with her fiancé, after consulting with her family and they enjoyed the new pleasures of Tuscany together. In the film, Frances is already married in the beginning and becomes abruptly divorced after her worthless husband leaves her for an affair. She then finds the house while alone on a tour given to her as a gift.
- Shares filming location of Montepulciano, Italy with study abroad documentary Di passaggio (2009) and The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009).
- Matthew Labyorteaux: The man crying through the wall in the hotel Frances is staying in after her divorce.
- Writer/director Audrey Wells said that when she was writing the script, the only actress she thought of to play Patti was Sandra Oh. They had worked together on Guinevere (1999). One of Oh's guests on the Italian location was her fiancé Alexander Payne.
- Kate Walsh plays the significant other of Sandra Oh; both of whom star in Grey's Anatomy as Dr. Addison Shepherd and Dr. Christina Yang.
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