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Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) More at IMDbPro »

• Writer/director Audrey Wells said that when she was writing the script, the only actress she thought of to play Patti was Sandra Oh. They had worked together on Guinevere (1999). One of Oh's guests on the Italian location was her fiancé Alexander Payne.
  
  
• The director wanted to cast actual Polish actors to play the immigrant Polish workers in the film, but couldn't due problems and delays getting work visas for the Polish actors from the Italian government.
  
  
• The man crying through the wall in the hotel Frances is staying in after her divorce is Matthew Laborteaux.
  
  
• The "German couple" which tries to buy Bramasole when the main character appears on the scene has been edited into a French couple in the German dubbing of the movie.
  
  
• Every time a group of nuns is seen on screen, they are eating: first at the market, then sitting on a terrace and finally during the wedding.
  
  
• Frances and Pawel see George of the Jungle (1997), the screenplay of which was written by Audrey Wells.
  
  
• The uncredited character of the painter Zeus was originally fully nude. However, digital underwear was added later in post-production to avoid an R-rating.
  
  
• In the scene when Frances is talking to her divorce lawyer, the camera stays on Frances and we never see the lawyer. The script originally called for a longer scene with coverage of both Frances and the lawyer. Jeffrey Tambor, the actor who played the lawyer, was so impressed by Diane Lane's performance that he insisted to Audrey Wells that the scene would have more emotional impact if his character remained unseen. However, the DVD shows the scene in its entirety, including camera cuts between Tambor and Lane.
  
  
• Shares filming location of Montepulciano, Italy with study abroad documentary Di passaggio (2009) and New Moon (2009).
  
  
• The blue vase that is the one item aside from the books that Frances takes as she leaves her house shows up again later as she is setting up her work desk in Bramisole (she puts her pens in it). However it again shows up near the end of the movie when she opens her box of books that have been delivered to her at Bramisole it is packed inside.
  
  

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