Diane Lane's glowing performance is the best thing about this trite romantic drama, in which an unhappy divorcee finds her bliss in a crumbling Tuscan villa. Beautiful, accomplished, home-loving writer and literature professor Frances (Lane) gets a rude awakening when she learns her husband, whom she's been supporting, is having an affair. Worse, he demands alimony and half the marital assets — assets Frances paid for while he was tomcatting around rather than working on his book — and California's no-fault divorce and community-property laws leave her no legal recourse. Devastated, she moves into a rundown apartment building and is, her best friend Patti (...
Released:
2003
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
115 mins