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Unlike Miss Golightly, this is the story of a small-town girl who ran away to the big city only to discover that she left her heart back home with the equally handsome country boy she's loved since childhood. And, also like Holly Golightly, she's hiding a secret past. Not bad for a girl that grew up in a double-wide in Pigeon Creek, Alabama. It opens with an homage to another classic chick flick, Breakfast at Tiffany's, with transplanted New Yorker (shades of Holly Golightly) -and rising fashion designer- Melanie Carmichael, receiving an ultra-romantic marriage proposal from the incredibly handsome son of the mayor, inside that iconic Fifth Avenue jewelry store. Sweet Home Alabama is the biggest woman's fantasy picture since Pretty Woman. Poor Reese Witherspoon must choose between Patrick Dempsey and Josh Lucas in Sweet Home Alabama. I may have to rethink some of my right wing thoughts on Hollywood's left wing bias. Much to my surprise her character is a democrat.
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The big surprise for me in this movie was Candace Bergen's mayor. Her character is the only fleshed out one in the movie. I do agree with Scott on Reese Witherspoon. "Even when one of their members confesses to being gay, this entire small southern town, which doesn't even have an ATM yet, opens their arms in acceptance to him." Scott, are you suggesting that just because these people are from a small southern town that they wouldn't open their arms in acceptance? What an awful stereotype you are perpetuating. So what? The humor is in how the couple gets to that point. Of course you know who will end up with who early on. It's not the catch that is so entertaining but the chase. Scott wrote that this movie is predictable. Reese Witherspoon, Patrick Dempsey and Candice Bergen in Sweet Home Alabama. But even her mega-watt smile can't illuminate entirely the dark and shabby corners lurking on the edges of this movie. She has grace, charm, beauty, and is just so damn likable that she lights up the screen enough that you don't notice the movie's weaknesses while she is on screen. The only saving grace to this whole disappointing film is the presence of Reese Witherspoon. Even when one of their members confesses to being gay, this entire small southern town, which doesn't even have an ATM yet, opens their arms in acceptance to him. Everyone from New York is a bitchy snob, and everyone from this small, seemingly idyllic small town is perfect. It falls prey to stereo-types, clichés, and tired, predictable, plot devices.
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This is where the movie starts to fall apart. And so back home she must go to get her husband to sign the divorce papers he has refused to sign so far. Spoiling this otherwise ideal situation is the fact that she is still married to a man back in her home town in Alabama. It tells the story of a rising young fashion designer living in New York City, engaged to the son of the Mayor of New York City. However, while Reese Witherspoon is as sweet and as likable in this movie as always, the movie itself is only mediocre at best. And like Meg Ryan, Reese Witherspoon is making a tidy living by appearing in light-hearted romantic comedies like this one Sweet Home Alabama. Because surely, in the form of this girl-next-door actress, we have found a worthy successor to that other famous blonde. I have a theory that when Hollywood realized that Meg Ryan was getting too old to be America's Blonde Sweetheart, they took a bit of her DNA and re-incarnated her as Reese Witherspoon. Jean Smart and Reese Witherspoon in Sweet Home Alabama.