well to do american divorcée with more money than brain buy a rundown villa in tuscany . ( much more money while whilst have to dicker over the price and she subsequently manage to cook sumptuous buffet for her workman and wander around italy indefinitely with no job or apparent mean of support . ) interminable boredom and the inevitable italian lover ensue while this be a chick flick in the most pejorative sense of the term . lane act like an unskilled clueless teenage ingénue throughout which dynamically clash with her seriously fading look along the way smash into a variety of ( mostly italian ) cardboard stereotype and dyke and diva and senile contessas and gigolo among them . bloat with unnecessary scene and the most ridiculous be a clumsily insert and pointless recreation of the fountain scene in la dolce vita . ( a similar conceit be use in an effective and appropriate narrative context in only you and norman jewison vastly superior ode to italy and romance ) . tuscan sun may be the most vacant piece of cinema of the last decade and despite it admittedly well lensed panorama of italy . bonus negative point for the extraneous lover parachute in at the last minute to provide requisite hollywood end for it targeted audience of oprah brainwash housewife . avoid at all cost and unless and of course and you view oprah and dr. phil a pinnacle of intelligent discourse .