The three mothers of the people involved in this love triangle are excellent: Mary Kay Place ( Committed) for Melanie, Jean Smart ( In-Laws and TV' s Designing Women) for Jake, and Candice Bergen (TV's Murphy Brown, and Miss Congeniality) Andrew's Mayor of New York mom all show some disappointment in their children while supporting them. The movie has a good cast chemistry, and story is pulled off by lots of good acting performances. In fact, if you compare Sweet Home Alabama to The Wedding Planner, the stories take a few similar turns with, of course, the same ending: guy gets girl who wanted guy in the first place. And his stirring blue eyes make him easy on the eyes (that from my wife who spent much of the movie wanting more close ups of the Matthew McConaughey look-alive. As he says, 'Just because I talk slow don't mean I'm stupid.' Josh Lucas (Dean of Mathematics Martin Hansen from A Beautiful Mind) is incredible as Jake. As we go through the movie, we will see that there is a lot more to this man than meets the eye. It seems she hasn't been able to get him to sign the divorce papers for the entire time she has been in New York. She says yes but knows there is a trip home in her future to confront her boyhood love for a divorce. In what is one of the most romantic scenes in memory, the movie opens with her being proposed to by the mayor of New York's son Andrew (Patrick Dempsey from Denial, Loverboy). I wondered if that happened in real life for Witherspoon, who was born in Nashville.

The southern accent only comes in when Melanie is stressed and forgets how hard she worked to lose it. Melanie Carmichael is played by Reese Witherspoon ( Legally Blonde, Pleasantville). The story (Douglas Eboch and C Jay Cox write their second movie together) is the tale of a bright young southern girl who escapes the back country of Pigeon Creek, Alabama and moves to New York city for a new beginning with a new name, and 7 years later, is a successful clothes designer. It is a very nice, good clean fun movie that is worth your attention. Sweet Home Alabama is not great drama, nor is it great comedy. Which guy do you THINK she's going to end up with? It was just a matter of which county back road they were going to take to get from the Speakeasy to the Still. The name is Sweet Home Alabama, not New York, New York. It didn't matter that I could probably write the review before I saw the opening titles. I heard the song and had to see the movie. Patrick's Day makes everyone Irish for the day. The music of Lynard Skynard has allowed millions of non-Southerners to become Rednecks in absencia. They played the Anthem of Alabama: the title of this movie.

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