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Sweet Home Alabama
Andy Tennant
(2002)
104min
12 Certificate
Sunday 3:15pm - 5:25pm
Channel 5
HD
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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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Other Information
Language:
English
Colour
Theatrical distributor:
Buena Vista
Guidance:
edited for language.
Available on:
video and DVD
Released on:
20 Dec 2002
Comedy
Drama
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