History Film / UnderTheTuscanSun

* {{Fanservice}}: A fair bit, despite the film's use of RightThroughHisPants and ModestyBedsheet for the sex scenes. Frances strips down to her bra a couple of times, and Katherine shows off plenty of skin. The latter's (much younger) Macedonian lover Zeus is basically a FanserviceExtra, given that we only see him from the neck down, wearing nothing but a pair of tight underpants.

* [[LastGirlWins Last Guy Wins]]: Frances' ''actual'' love interest doesn't show up until about two minutes before the credits.

* MostWritersAreWriters: Justified. Frances is a writer (and even teaches creative writing courses). The whole movie is (loosely) based on a best-selling memoir written by the real Frances Mayes.

* AFriendToAllAnimals: Frances. Her first reaction to an owl flying into her bedroom during the storm is to try and reassure the poor creature, and she later adopts the cute kitten she finds on the beach.

* AnchoredShip: [[spoiler:Francesca and Marcello]]. An unusual variation in that the party who anchors the ship points out that they were completely reasonable to do so -- scheduling mismatches and a bunch of other things that just screamed, "Sorry, I'm not ready to have a relationship right now, no matter how much I want to be" -- and the other party accepts this.

* {{Fanservice}}: A fair bit, despite the film's use of RightThroughHisPants and ModestyBedsheet for the sex scenes. Frances strips down to her bra a couple of times, and Katherine's (much younger) Macedonian lover Zeus is only see from the neck down, wearing nothing but a pair of tight underpants.

* SceneryPorn: At times, the film ''runs'' on this.

* ParentalMarriageVeto: attempted by Chiara's family.
* RightThroughHisPants: to keep the movie's rating down, basically every sex scene involves either this or a ModestyBedsheet.

* MalignedMixedMarriage: Pawel, a Pole, has to fight for approval from Chiara's Italian family.

* TheDanza: The actor who played Pawel is named Pawel.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Patti is played by Creator/SandraOh and Grace by Creator/KateWalsh, two years before their big break(s) in ''Series/GreysAnatomy''.

* OliveGarden: The movie arguably wouldn't work at all otherwise, but the trope is taken to ridiculous extremes.

* OneNightStand: Frances ends up having one with [[spoiler:Marcello]], despite frantic efforts to convert it into something more long-term.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Patti is played by Sandra Oh and Grace by Kate Walsh, two years before their big break(s) in ''Series/GreysAnatomy''.

''Under the Tuscan Sun'' is a 2003 ChickFlick adapted from Frances Mayes' memoir of the same name, directed by Audrey Wells and starring Diane Lane.

Frances is an author who is happy one day, then finds out her husband is cheating on her and soon ends up divorced and living in a sad little apartment. She finds this situation intolerable, so decides to go on a vacation to Europe. While there, she buys a giant villa in Tuscany (of course) on a whim, and spends the rest of the movie fixing it and her life up.

* OliveGarden - The movie arguably wouldn't work at all otherwise, but the trope is taken to ridiculous extremes.

* HollywoodEconomics: She gets $300,000 from the sale of her house, and isn't implied to have a great deal more sitting around. The villa she buys must be worth a million Euro...at least, not counting the renovation with crew. It doesn't quite add up.

''Under the Tuscan Sun'' is a 2003 ChickFlick adapted from Frances Mayes' memoir of the same name, written and directed by Audrey Wells and starring Diane Lane.

Frances Mayes is an author who is happy one day, then finds out her husband is cheating on her and soon ends up divorced and living in a sad little apartment. She finds this situation intolerable, so decides to go on a vacation to Europe. While there, she buys a giant villa in Tuscany (of course) on a whim, and spends the rest of the movie fixing it and her life up.

''Under the Tuscan Sun'' is a 2003 ChickFlick written and directed by Audrey Wells and starring Diane Lane.

''Under the Tuscan Sun'' is a 2003 ChickFlick about an author (Diane Lane) who is happy one day, then finds out her husband is cheating on her and soon ends up divorced and living in a sad little apartment. She finds this situation intolerable, so decides to go on a vacation to Europe. While there, she buys a giant villa in Tuscany (of course) on a whim, and spends the rest of the movie fixing it and her life up.

* BigFancyHouse - A bit run down, but freakin' enormous.
* BoyfriendBluff - A variation. Frances grabs Marcello and pretends to be his girlfriend in order to get rid of some rude admirers.
* HollywoodEconomics - She gets $300,000 from the sale of her house, and isn't implied to have a great deal more sitting around. The villa she buys must be worth a million Euro...at least, not counting the renovation with crew. It doesn't quite add up.

* BoyfriendBluff - A variation. Frances grabs Mercello and pretends to be his girlfriend in order to get rid of some rude admirers.

* OliveGarden - The movie arguably wouldn't work at all otherwise, but the it's taken to ridiculous extremes.

* OliveGarden - The movie arguably wouldn't work at all otherwise