Sweet Home Alabama (film)
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| Directed by | Andy Tennant |
| Produced by | David Brown Michael Tolkin |
| Written by | Douglas J. Eboch (story) C. Jay Cox (screenplay) |
| Starring | Reese Witherspoon Josh Lucas Patrick Dempsey Fred Ward Candice Bergen Mary Kay Place |
| Distributed by | Touchstone Pictures |
| Release date(s) | September 27, 2002 |
| Running time | approximately 109 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | US$38,000,000 (estimated) |
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Sweet Home Alabama is a 2002 movie that was released on September 27, 2002 and is directed by Andy Tennant.
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[edit] Plot summary
Melanie Carmichael (Reese Witherspoon) is a New York fashion designer who becomes engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. However, unbeknownst to her fiancé, she is still married to, albeit separated from, her childhood sweetheart. She subsequently returns to her hometown in Greenville, Alabama to obtain a divorce from her husband, Jake (Josh Lucas). He refuses to sign the divorce papers with the hopes of one day winning her back. She realizes when she comes back that you can take the girl out of the South, but you can't take the South out of the girl.
[edit] Box office
Generating the biggest opening of the month of September, the film grossed over $38 million in its first weekend out. By the end of its run in the U.S., Sweet Home Alabama grossed over $127 million and another $53,399,006 internationally.
[edit] Cast
| Actor | Role |
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| Reese Witherspoon | Melanie Smooter / Perry / Carmichael |
| Josh Lucas | Jake Perry |
| Patrick Dempsey | Andrew Hennings |
| Candice Bergen | Mayor Kate Hennings |
| Mary Kay Place | Pearl Smooter |
| Fred Ward | Earl Smooter |
| Jean Smart | Stella Kay |
| Ethan Embry | Bobby Ray |
| Melanie Lynskey | Lurlynn |
| Courtney Gains | Sheriff Wade |
| Mary Lynn Rajskub | Dorothea |
| Rhona Mitra | Tabatha |
| Nathan Lee Graham | Frederick |
| Sean Bridgers | Eldon |
| Fleet Cooper | Clinton |
| Thomas Curtis | Young Jake |
| Dakota Fanning | Young Melanie |
[edit] Trivia
- Candice Bergen and Rhona Mitra would later go on to star in Boston Legal together.
- The glass "artworks" (actually called fulgurites) formed by lightning hitting sand that Josh Lucas's character creates to sell in his glass shop were based on American artist Allan McCollum's 1997 "Petrified Lighting" project.
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