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Mary Panton, an impoverished young widow from England, comes to Tuscany in 1938 in hopes of finding a wealthy husband and escaping imminent bankruptcy. Her prospects of marrying a rich but stodgy British aristocrat are jeopardized by two other men, a rakish American playboy and a romantic Austrian refugee, neither of whose charms she is likely to resist for long. A period piece in the tradition of Merchant-Ivory dramas, UP AT THE VILLA captures the look and feel of the Jazz Era perfectly, and features a stellar cast that includes Kristin Scott Thomas, Sean Penn, and Anne Bancroft.
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