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Studio: Touchstone Pictures
Release Date: Sep 27, 2002
Running Time: 102 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
New York fashion designer Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But Melanie's past holds many secrets, including Jake, the redneck husband she married in high school, who refuses to divorce her. Bound and determined to end their contentious relationship once and for all, Melanie sneaks back home to Alabama to confront her past, only to discover that you can take the girl out of the South, but you can never take the South out of the girl.
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Melanie Carmichael
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Andrew Hennings
Kate Hennings
Pearl Smooter
Earl Smooter
Stella Kay
Bobby Ray
Lurlynn
Wade
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reviews
In her press publicity for this film, Witherspoon, a native of Nashville, Tenn., has accused Hollywood of often stereotyping Southerners as ignoramuses who talk funny, but explains that this film offers a true representation of Southern values. I thought her comment was interesting considering director Andrew Tennant litters the film with clichés, including a closeted gay man (Ethan Embry) who fears coming out to his rural peers and a woman who breastfeeds her baby in a bar. Despite its crudely… 
September 24, 2002
Sometimes adorable really is enough, especially if it comes with smarts, heart and humor. Take Reese Witherspoon in Sweet Home Alabama. The movie is a comic romance that would have to beef up to cut it as fluff. But watch Witherspoon dig into the role of Melanie Smooter, a steel magnolia who skips out on her white-trash roots in Alabama -- that includes her husband, Jake (Josh Lucas) -- and hits it big in the Big Apple by reinventing herself as fashionista Melanie Carmichael.
This babe dresses… |
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