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Under the Tuscan Sun
2003
**½
Director: Audrey Wells
Cast: Diane Lane, Sandra Oh, Lindsay Duncan, Raoul Bova, Pawel Szaida

After a heartbreaking divorce an American writer makes a fresh start by purchasing a derelict country house in Tuscany in this extremely loose adaptation of Frances Mayes' memoirs. We have laughs and cries, as well as a stock collection of colourful local and not-so-local characters, and by the end everybody's problems are ironed out. The film has an attractive cast and beautiful locations, and it's quite watchable, but it all flows over you like water off a duck's back.