This adaptation of Frances Mayes' best seller gets two stars for two reasons: star Diane Lane, who is loveliness incarnate, and the Italian scenery, which isn't so bad either. Otherwise, those allergic to chick flicks are hereby warned. How did Mayes' literary travelogue — complete with recipes, lyrical descriptions of peach marmalade and the how-to of renovating a Tuscan villa with her husband — become the sudsy story of Frances (Lane), the heartbroken divorcee from San Francisco looking for love in sunny Italy? Hollywood, that's how. Director Audrey Wells loads a cliched plot on Mayes' lighter-than-air memoir. That includes Marcello (Raoul Bova), her Italian-hunk lover; Patti (the hilarious Sandra Oh), her pregnant lesbian friend; and countless cutesy handymen. Why go on? Just soak up that Tuscan sun and wonder when Lane will get another movie, like Unfaithful or A Walk on the Moon, that will let her really shine.

“He Will Break Your Heart”

A lightly swinging Latin-influenced, almost cha-cha groove and close harmonies decorated Jerry Butler's early soul hit "He Will Break Your Heart," delivering a stately warning that his rival would never love his girl like he did. The melody came to Butler as he was driving on the highway from Atlantic City, New Jersey, to Philadelphia with Curtis Mayfield, and as Butler told Rolling Stone, "I just sang the melody and Curtis put the chords to it." The song's premise, Butler added, "was something that I'd lived ...The lyric was an experience rather than a revelation. Whereas music is usually a revelation."