Diane Lane Videos : Under The Tuscan Sun

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Under The Tuscan Sun

Under the Tuscan Sun is a 2003 film based on Frances Mayes' 1996 memoir of the same name. The film was directed by Audrey Wells and starred Diane Lane. Frances Mayes (Diane Lane) is a San Francisco writer whose seemingly perfect life has just taken an unexpected detour. She finds out at a party that she's hosting, from a writer to whom she had given a bad review of his book, that her husband has been cheating on her. The divorce leaves her depressed and with seemingly terminal writer's block; her best friend Patti (Sandra Oh), a lesbian who is expecting a child, is beginning to think Frances might never recover. Patti convinces her to take an Italian vacation, to Tuscany in the town of Cortona, but it's on a gay tour Patti and her partner Grace (Kate Walsh) had booked it for themselves, but changed plans after Patti became pregnant. At first Frances refuses, but then after a depressing day in her new, gloomy apartment, she decides that it is a good idea to get away for a little while after all. In Tuscany, while stopping in a small town she sees a notice about a villa for sale, in Cortona. Then, after the passengers are back on the tour bus, the bus has to stop to let a herd of sheep pass, and Frances realizes that they've stopped in front of the very villa that she had seen for sale, something she believes is a sign. She asks the driver to stop and she gets off the bus. Through a series of serendipitous events she becomes the owner of a lovely yet dilapidated villa in ...

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