JinRoz For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

marvinPA It's not often I don't manage to plow trough a movie, but the writing on this one was undoubtedly the worst I have seen in a long time.The bafflingly horrible dialogue and characterization was insulting for a viewer with even a shred sense. Was this a film student project gone horribly awry? In a character driven movie, you'd think there would be at least a little effort made on the way characterization. Basically what this movie boils down to is the scenery with a cheesy plot, even worse dialogue and no real heart or mind behind it. Cheap money grab form dimwits to dimwits.If I absolutely would have to say anything good about it, is that most of the shots where in focus.

Prismark10 This is a travelogue that meets 'a year in Provence.'It is an adaptation of a book where Diane Lane who discovers her husband is having an affair and is persuaded to go to a tour of Italy and impulsively purchases a run down house. She sets about getting workers together and fix the house while at the same time getting her life together and hopefully find romance again.There is wonderful Italian scenery, Lane looks ravishing, some tender and funny and scenes but its predictable. I saw the television adaptation of the Year of Provence over twenty years ago and here again you have workers struggling to fix the house and having problems communicating because of the language problems, some of the builders here are Polish.Pretty soon Lane has a male admirer and things seem to brighten up for Lane as the house is coming together and some of the side plots such as one of the Poles falling for a local girl coming to an optimistic end. However you always feel her young male admirer is someone hardly in short of female company when he is away from her.The film gets along in a nice bland way, never really jolting you because its predictable and never reaching a higher gear. Its as is some edgy characters such as Lane's gay friends and the nice scenery is supposed to make up for a run of the mill screenplay.

tieman64 Based on a novel by Frances Mayes, "Under The Tuscan Sun" stars the always beautiful Diane Lane as a writer who moves to Italy following a divorce. Once there, she buys a house, mingles with various locals and learns to appreciate life's simple virtues.Whilst clichéd and condescending, "Sun" nevertheless has one interesting angle. Here Lane goes in search of various specific fantasies; she hopes to find a new home, family, and photogenic Italian lover. When these fantasies are thwarted, Lane begins to live vicariously through the romance of a young couple, both of whom are trapped in their own little Romeo and Juliet subplot. This duo represents, for Lane, nothing less than "hope"; the possibility that dreams do come true. Lane's dreams, of course, are eventually fulfilled; shes meets a new lover. The message? Be spontaneous, "grow in all directions", ignore what you crave, and when the time is right, what you desire will spontaneously appear anyway. This message contradicts the film's other subplot, in which the allures of Italy are portrayed as a false image bred by the scions of cinema. Or perhaps not. Lane's received everything she dreamt of, and yet there remains a mysterious garden snake hidden in her home.7/10 – Worth one viewing. See Antonioni's "Beyond the Clouds", "Big Night" and "Before Sunrise".

SnoopyStyle Frances (Diane Lane) works hard to support his writer husband. So when his husband finally finishes his book, she is surprised to be cleaned out in a divorce from his cheating husband. I don't know why she doesn't get half his book. But while he gets to live in their old house with his new girlfriend, she gets to rent a tiny apartment in a divorcées complex. When her best friend Patti (Sandra Oh) has unusable tickets to a gay tour to Tuscany, she insists that Frances go to renew her life. Only she decides to buy an old house there.Diane Lane is lovely. I guess it's a single girl fantasy to run away to Italy. She has some wacky fun renovating the house. Then midway thru there is an Italian guy. It's done in a totally different style. I feared that it was turning into a more by the book rom-com. Then the guy goes away for awhile. Sandra Oh comes back into the movie. The tone goes much lighter with Sandra making a couple of jokes. There is a young couple that injects some energy. Diane Lane makes this fantasy good. The film could be a self-indulgent mess without her. I really feel for her. That's all due to Diane Lane. It does turn sad as nothing works out. But we recover for our happy sappy ending.