Synopsis
New York fashion designer, Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But her 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.
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Cast
- Reese WitherspoonMelanie Smooter
- Josh LucasJake Perry
- Patrick DempseyAndrew Hennings
- Candice BergenMayor Kate Hennings
- Mary Kay PlacePearl Smooter
- Fred WardEarl Smooter
- Jean SmartStella Kay Perry
- Ethan EmbryBobby Ray
- Melanie LynskeyLurlynn
- Courtney GainsSheriff Wade
Recommendations
- 75
Chicago Sun-Times
It is a fantasy, a sweet, light-hearted fairy tale with Reese Witherspoon at its center. She is as lovable as Doris Day would have been in this role (in fact, Doris Day was in this role, in "Please Don't Eat the Daisies"). - 63
ReelViews
Die-hard fans of Witherspoon and the romantic comedy genre will probably find enough to like in this film to make it worth a trip to the theater. Everyone else would be best served by spending their hard-earned money on something else. - 60
Washington Post
If you're a fan of Witherspoon, this movie was produced, shot, edited and distributed entirely for you. - 60
The New Yorker
Makes a suitable staging post in Witherspoon's headlong career. She may want to forget it by Christmas, yet its cushioned slackness allows her to sharpen her grasp of a steely American type: the girl next door who will kill to get out of town. [30 Sept 2002, p. 145] - 50
Christian Science Monitor
It doesn't have a speck of authentic heart -- you can bet its Hollywood creators wouldn't move to Alabama if their lives depended on it -- but if you belong to the growing legion of Witherspoon worshippers, this is definitely the movie of the week. - 50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Light to the point of disposability, Sweet Home Alabama is a small screwball comic idea that spins out far too long. - 50
USA Today
The latest picture to give you the sense that Hollywood filmmakers simply plucked another old pop-tune title ripe for ripping off, then were shaken by the rude reality of coming up with a script to jerry-build around it. - 50
Austin Chronicle
What it needs is a little more dirtying down. What it needs, in short, is less New York, and more Alabama.
