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Sweet Home Alabama Movie Rating: 
Uninspiring | |
| Rising fashion designer Melanie Carmichael (Reese Witherspoon) gets engaged to Andrew (Patrick Dempsey), NYC's most eligible bachelor and son of the mayor (Candice Bergen). | |
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Before she can marry, though, Melanie must travel to
her hometown down south and tie up a few loose ends, like getting a divorce
from redneck husband Jake (Josh Lucas).
Most of the movie deals with Melanie's efforts to reconcile her feelings toward her
two vastly different lifestyles. Essentially, this is a big-screen version
of Green Acres, with Witherspoon embodying both Eva Gabor's ditsy socialite
and Eddie Albert's country bumpkin at the same time. The direction of the story is obvious from the start, so it's only through the sheer force of Witherspoon's personality that this movie works at all. |
Josh Lucas and Reese Witherspoon. ©2002 Touchstone Pictures. |
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