Sweet Home Alabama

Sweet Home Alabama


MPAA Rating: PG13 | Year: 2002 | Running Time: 108 minutes

After establishing herself as a bankable star with the fish out of water comedy Legally Blonde, Reese Witherspoon returns in what could be described as a "fish back in water" comedy. Melanie Carmichael (Witherspoon) is a successful New York fashion designer who is dating Andrew Hennings (Patrick ...more

  • Sweet Home Alabama - SWEET HOME ALABAMA movie poster.
  • Sweet Home Alabama - When Melanie Carmichael (Witherspoon) becomes engaged to Andrew (Dempsey), son of the mayor (Bergen), she must go back home to Alabama to finally divorce her redneck husband.
  • Sweet Home Alabama - Melanie (Witherspoon, right) shows off her engagement ring to Stella Kay (Jean Smart, left), the mother of the man who refuses to divorce her.
  • Sweet Home Alabama - Meet the parents: Earl (Fred Ward, left), Melanie's father; Andrew's mother, Kate (Bergen, center), the mayor of New York; Pearl (Mary Kay Place, right), Melanie's mother.
  • Sweet Home Alabama - When Melanie Carmichael (Witherspoon, center) becomes engaged to Andrew (Dempsey, left), she must go back home to Alabama to finally divorce her redneck husband, Jake (Lucas, right).

After a string of edgy and often deliberately unsympathetic performances in such films as Freeway, American Psycho, and Election, Reese Witherspoon was probably as surprised as anyone that America was ready to let her become its latest sweetheart. But after the runaway success of Legally Blonde, the budding superstar stuck to safe, fairy-tale material with this mostly winning romantic comedy. Populated by lovable eccentrics and plain but good folks, Sweet Home Alabama's Pigeon Creek is ...more

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Release Date: 02/04/2003



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