Goofs

When Signor Martini is next to the fireplace telling Frances about the train tracks through the mountains, the matchbox behind him moves around the top of the fire place.

When Frances meets Marcello, she is being pursued by a group of men. As she runs around a corner, her boots are visible underneath her dress and they are medium brown or tan. Later on that same day, when Frances and Marcello start making love in the antiques store, her boots are black.

When Frances walks out of her house for the last time in San Francisco, she picks up the little blue vase, dumps it out, and places it in her jacket pocket. The boxes of books are already sealed. However, when the boxes arrive months later in Italy, the first thing she unpacks is that blue vase.

When in the cafe eating the ice cream, the ice cream changes shape from one round ball to a dollop between shots.

When Frances is calling Patti from the phone booth right before it rains, her hair changes from behind her ear/pulled back neatly to in front of her ear/slightly messy

When Frances' lawyer tells her that her house is up for grabs in the divorce because California is a community property state , he was wrong. Since Frances inherited the house from her mother, it is not community property unless she put her husband's name on the deed.

Lindsay Duncan's English character shares her philosophy on "ladybugs" to Frances, but in Britain they are known as ladybirds.

When the real estate agent starts the fire in the wood stove he leaves the matches, plates, and wood items on top of the stove instead of removing them. These all could catch fire in real life.

The scene in which Frances is told the renovation is done must have taken many takes, as the apple in her mouth is showing signs of rot.

On the market prices are in lire, however the euro was introduced in 2002.

Before Francesca first kisses Marcello on the beach, a light sheet is visible reflected in her sunglasses.

Near the end of the movie, as a voiceover speaks of the Semmering Pass railway from Austria to Italy, we are shown a train of the Rhätische Bahn (or Rhaetian Railway). Except for a very short section in Italy, the RhB operates only in Switzerland; it's nowhere near the Semmering Pass.

When Frances returns to Positano to meet with Marcello, she is at sea-level. Most (if not all) busses to Positano come in from the hillside as most of the city is almost vertical along the cliffside. She would not have entered the city from the bottom and then climb, she would have to come in from the top and go down.

The film title states "Tuscan Sun", referring to Tuscany in northern Italy, but some of the story takes place in the Salerno province in southern Italy.