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Sweet Home Alabama
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for some language/sexual references
Starring Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas, Patrick Dempsey, Candice Bergen, Ethan Embry, Fred Ward, and Mary Kay Place
Bound and determined to end their contentious relationship once and for all, newly-engaged New Yorker Melanie (Witherspoon) sneaks back home to Alabama to confront her past (including her redneck husband), only to discover that you can take the girl out of the South, but you can never take the South out of the girl. (Touchstone Pictures)
| GENRE(S): | Romance |
| WRITTEN BY: |
C. Jay Cox
Douglas J. Eboch (story) |
| DIRECTED BY: | Andy Tennant |
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: February 4, 2003 Video: February 4, 2003 Theatrical: September 27, 2002 |
| RUNNING TIME: | 105 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: | USA |
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The average user rating for this movie is 7.3 (out of 10) based on 53 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
A W gave it a4:
Predictable, cheesy, and lazy movie-making all the way. I don't hate chick flicks, either; with apologies to C.S. Lewis, "We don't need more chick flicks, we need better ones." For all the "Well, you yankees just don't understand the South" posters, Reese Witherspoon is the only really southern thing about this movie.
Ginny H. gave it a 10:
Great movie the south is gonna do it again.
Dede S. gave it a 10:
This was a great movie for anyone who believes in the fact that we all have a soul mate out there. Its a great movie, funny and tear-jerker at times. If you have any sense of style , like most southerners have you will love it. Yankee's cant' see the humor in it cause mose of them are stuff shirts.
Pat C. gave it a 1:
As romantic comedy, it charges out of the gate, sets a torrid pace, gets issues of obscene wealth vs. down home roots and feminist rights vs. domestic loyalty out there in the finest chicky-flicky tradition. It's working. It's working. I tell you, it's working. Anything the movie does after the putrid marriage proposal in Tiffanys is going to be well received. If what follows seems a little contrived, damn the torpedoes. We're going to get Closure. Yes! Yes! Civil war re-enactors do a battle, come back to life and sip lemonade (actually, that was a nice touch). There's an Out Of Africa tear-jerker of a plane ride. Oh, Wow! Wow! God, I say Wow! Full speed ahead! Then the glass & lightning rod thing resurfaces, we flashback to a dark beach where the Almighty irresponsibly neglects to smite somebody, and the film trips over its shoe laces and face plants at the finish line. Her guy isn't a redneck after all, he's a snag (sensitive new age guy). It's just a little too much to have to walk on eggshells to continue the charade of an unrepentent pathological liar avoiding superficial social embarrassment . A hush falls over us. We agree it was a hell of a ride, but we won't remember a thing about it the next day. They painted ourselves into a corner with the title song. Maybe it's too hokey - it would never had gone anthem if Neil Young hadn't pissed off the locals. Hey Jeff, how about, "You know you're a redneck if you hated this movie."
Arianna gave it a 10:
I loved this movie....Reese is such a delight to watch!! Its a great flick!!!
Tommy P. gave it an 8:
Great movie.....dont listen to the stupid critics ..."they hate themselves"
Paul D. gave it a 5:
Unbelievable fairy tale, made bearable by Reese Witherspoon's sincere performance, is acceptable as an innocuous rental.
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