Sweet Home Alabama

Andy Tennant (2002)

104min

12 Certificate

Review

Our Score

by David Parkinson

The satirical edge that Reese Witherspoon displayed in Election is blunted by too much Legally Blonde-style kitsch in this negligible romantic comedy. She plays a New York-residing, Alabama-raised fashion designer who needs a divorce from her childhood sweetheart in order to marry socialite Patrick Dempsey. So Witherspoon heads home, bristling with snobbish attitude, only to step into a corny Dixieland fantasy that seems manufactured to take her down a peg or two as well as blind her to the problems that caused her to abandon husband Josh Lucas in the first place. Director Andy Tennant managed more realism in his Cinderella story Ever After, but the charming Witherspoon almost manages to make us care about yet another Identikit big-city caricature.

Summary

A successful New York fashion designer excitedly planning her wedding has to return to her home town in Alabama to persuade her first husband to sign the papers to finalise their divorce. However, seeing her childhood sweetheart stirs up old feelings, leaving the bride-to-be in a quandary over her future. Romantic comedy, starring Reese Witherspoon, Patrick Dempsey, Josh Lucas and Candice Bergen.

Cast & Crew

Melanie Carmichael Reese Witherspoon

Andrew Hennings Patrick Dempsey

Jake Perry Josh Lucas

Kate Candice Bergen

Pearl Smooter Mary Kay Place

Earl Smooter Fred Ward

Stella Kay Jean Smart

Bobby Ray Ethan Embry

Lurlynn Melanie Lynskey

Sheriff Wade Courtney Gains

Dorothea Mary Lynn Rajskub

Tabatha Wadmore-Smith Rhona Mitra

Director Andy Tennant

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Language: EnglishColourTheatrical distributor: Buena VistaGuidance: edited for language.Available on: video and DVDReleased on: 20 Dec 2002

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