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Sweet Home Alabama
Directed byAndy Tennant
Produced byNeal H. Moritz
Screenplay byC. Jay Cox
Story byDouglas J. Eboch
Starring
Music byGeorge Fenton
CinematographyAndrew Dunn
Edited byTroy Takaki
Tracey Wadmore-Smith
Touchstone Pictures
Original Film
Distributed byBuena Vista Pictures
  • September 27, 2002
109 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$30 million[1]
Box office$180.6 million[1]

Sweet Home Alabama is a 2002 American romantic comedy film directed by Andy Tennant and starring Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas, Patrick Dempsey and Candice Bergen. The film was released by Touchstone Pictures on September 27, 2002. The film takes its title from the Lynyrd Skynyrd song of the same name.

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Plot[edit]

On an Alabama beach, 10 year olds Jake Perry and Melanie Smooter inspect the result of sand struck by lightning. Jake asserts that they will be married one day.

  1. Movie info: New York fashion designer Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But Melanie's past holds many secrets, including Jake, the redneck husband she married in high school, who refuses to divorce her. Bound and determined to end their contentious relationship once and for all, Melanie sneaks back home to Alabama to confront her past.
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In the present day, Melanie is a successful fashion designer. She has adopted the surname 'Carmichael' to hide her poor Southern roots. Engaged to Andrew Hennings, Melanie goes alone to Alabama to tell her parents and to procure a divorce from her estranged husband Jake. Kate, Andrew's mother and the Mayor of New York, expresses doubt that Melanie is good enough for her son, whom she is grooming to run for President of the United States. Melanie asks Jake why he keeps returning the divorce papers unsigned. He orders her out of his house. Melanie announces her engagement.

Melanie empties out Jake's checking account, hoping to spur Jake to sign the papers. He says he will sign the papers in the morning. Melanie gets drunk, insults her childhood friends and outs a mutual friend, Bobby Ray Bailey. The next morning the divorce papers are on her bed signed by Jake.

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Melanie visits the Carmichael plantation to apologize to Bobby Ray, where she is cornered by the mayor's assistant, sent to gather information on Melanie's background. Bobby Ray backs up her pretense that this is her childhood home. Melanie reconciles with her friends and learns that Jake followed her to New York to win her back but, intimidated by the city, returned home to make something of himself first. Jake finds Melanie in a pet graveyard, bidding farewell to their dog Bear, who died when Melanie was away and they have a heart to heart. Melanie realizes why Jake never signed the divorce papers.

Andrew arrives to surprise Melanie and Jake takes him to a Civil War reenactment, where Melanie is with her father. Melanie tells Andrew that Jake is her former husband. Andrew realizes that Melanie has lied to him about who she really is and leaves, but soon appears at Melanie's parents' house admitting he still wants to marry her. Melanie's New York friends arrive for the wedding and browse in a glassblower shop whose work they have admired in New York, only to realize it is Jake.

Melanie's lawyer interrupts the wedding with the divorce papers that Melanie herself has not signed. Melanie hesitates, realizing her love for Jake. She wishes Andrew luck and he wishes her well in return. Andrew's mother berates him, verbally attacks Melanie and insults the town. She calls Melanie's mother trailer trash, for which Melanie punches her in the jaw, to the cheers of the crowd.

Melanie, in her wedding gown in the rain, finds Jake planting lightning rods in the beach to create more sand sculptures. She tells him they are still married and as they kiss, Sheriff Wade 'arrests' them and takes them to Jake's mother's bar where their friends and family are waiting. They finally get their first dance as husband and wife, to the tune of Lynyrd Skynyrd's 'Sweet Home Alabama.' A mid-credits sequence shows that they have a daughter, Melanie continues to thrive as a designer and Jake opens a 'Deep South Glass' franchise in New York. Andrew is engaged to marry a girl named Erin Vanderbilt.

Cast[edit]

  • Reese Witherspoon as Melanie Smooter/Melanie Carmichael
  • Josh Lucas as Jake Perry
  • Patrick Dempsey as Andrew Hennings
  • Candice Bergen as Mayor Kate Hennings
  • Mary Kay Place as Pearl Smooter
  • Fred Ward as Earl Smooter
  • Jean Smart as Stella Kay Perry
  • Ethan Embry as Bobby Ray
  • Melanie Lynskey as Lurlynn
  • Courtney Gains as Sheriff Wade
  • Mary Lynn Rajskub as Dorothea
  • Rhona Mitra as Tabatha Wadmore-Smith
  • Nathan Lee Graham as Frederick Montana
  • Sean Bridgers as Eldon
  • Fleet Cooper as Clinton
  • Kevin Sussman as Barry Lowenstein
  • Thomas Curtis as Young Jake
  • Dakota Fanning as Young Melanie
  • Mark Skinner as Bruno
  • Michelle Krusiec as Pan
  • Phil Cater as Pablo
  • Michael Snow as Devin
  • Bob Penny as Wallace Buford
  • Mark Matkevich as Tom Darovsic
  • Lee Roy Giles as Eugene the Guard
  • Afemo Omilami as Jimmy Lee
  • Kevin Hagan as Jimmy the Driver
  • Dennis Ryan as Reporter
  • Jim O'Connor as Reporter
  • Leslie Hendrix as Reporter
  • Mark Oliver as Guard #2
  • Colin Ford as Clinton Jr. (uncredited)
  • Jason Guy as Photographer at the Red Carpet (uncredited)
  • Andrew Prine as Sheriff Holt (uncredited)

Production[edit]

Casting[edit]

Charlize Theron was considered for the lead role before Reese Witherspoon was casted.

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Katherine Towne was cast as Witherspoon's character's assistant who ultimately ends up marrying the Patrick Dempsey character, but all other scenes were dropped in the final cut.

Filming[edit]

The siren kiera cass pdf download. Although centered in a fictional version of the town of Pigeon Creek, near a fictional version of Greenville, Alabama, the film was mostly shot in Georgia. The Carmichael Plantation, which Melanie tells the reporter is her childhood home, is the Oak Hill Berry Museum, a historic landmark in Georgia which is on the campus of Berry College in Rome, Georgia.

Sweet Home Alabama was the first film allowed to shoot in New York City after the September 11, 2001 attacks. It was also the first film ever allowed to film in Tiffany’s since Breakfast at Tiffany’s in 1961.

The streets and storefronts of Crawfordville, Georgia were used as the backdrop for the Catfish Festival and other downtown scenes. The coonhound cemetery was on Moore Street in Crawfordville and the bar was located at Heavy's Barbecue near the town. Glass that forms when lightning hits sand, as in the film, is called fulgurite.

Jake's glassblowing shop was filmed at an old mill named Starr's Mill, in Fayette County, Georgia. Wynn's Pond in Sharpsburg, Georgia is the location where Jake lands his plane. The historic homes shown at Melanie's return to Pigeon Creek were shot in Eufaula, Alabama.

The film title and theme song lyrics are from the 'Sweet Home Alabama' song by Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, that first appeared in 1974 on their second album, Second Helping.[2][3][4]

Release[edit]

Critical response[edit]

This film received mostly mixed reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, 38% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 157 reviews. A critics consensus reads: 'Reese Witherspoon is charming enough, but the road to Alabama is well-traveled.'[5]

Roger Ebert, critic for the Chicago Sun Times, awarded it three-out-of-four stars, commenting, 'It is a fantasy, a sweet, light-hearted fairy tale with Reese Witherspoon at its center. She is as lovable as Doris Day would have been in this role.. So I enjoyed Witherspoon and the local color, but I am so very tired of the underlying premise.'[6]

Andrew Sarris, critic for the New York Observer, said that the movie 'Would be an unendurable viewing experience for this ultra-provincial New Yorker if 26-year-old Reese Witherspoon were not on hand to inject her pure fantasy character, Melanie Carmichael, with a massive infusion of old-fashioned Hollywood magic.'[7]

Box office performance[edit]

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The film grossed over US$35 million in its first weekend. By the end of its run in the United States, Sweet Home Alabama grossed over US$130 million,and another US$53,399,006 internationally. With a reported budget of US$30 million, it was a box office hit, despite the mixed reviews.[1]

Accolades[edit]

The film won the following awards:[8][better source needed]

AssociationCategoryRecipientResult
BMI Film & Television AwardBMI Film Music AwardGeorge FentonWon
GLAAD Media AwardOutstanding Film—Wide ReleaseSweet Home AlabamaNominated
Golden Trailer AwardBest RomanceSecretaryNominated
Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild AwardBest Contemporary Hair Styling—FeatureAnne MorganNominated
MTV Movie + TV AwardBest Female PerformanceReese WitherspoonNominated
Teen Choice AwardChoice Movie: ComedySweet Home AlabamaWon
Choice Movie: Comedy ActressReese WitherspoonNominated
Choice Movie: VillainCandice BergenNominated
Choice Movie: LiplockReese Witherspoon & Josh LucasWon

Soundtrack[edit]

Sweet Home Alabama (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), the film soundtrack, includes thirteen songs by different artists.[9]

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1.'Sweet Home Alabama'Gary Rossington, Ronnie Van Zant, Edward King3:43
2.'Mine All Mine'Kristyn Osborn, Hollie Poole3:55
3.'Falling Down'Avril Lavigne, David Alspach, Lauren Christy, Graham Edwards3:54
4.'Gonna Make You Love Me'Ryan Adams2:36
5.'To Think I Used to Love You (DJ Homicide Remix)'Uncle Kracker3:26
6.'Keep Your Hands to Yourself'Daniel J. Baird3:06
7.'Bring On the Day'Amy Powers, Jeffrey C.J. Vanston4:33
8.'Long Gone Lonesome Blues'Hank Williams2:55
9.'You Got Me'Jason Chain3:44
10.'Now That I Know'Eric Bazilian, Shannon McNally4:44
11.'Marry Me'Dolly Parton3:15
12.'Weekend Song'Matt Cantor, Pete Chill, Aston Harvey, Tenor Fly3:58
13.'Felony Melanie - Sweet Home Alabama Suite (Score)'5:02

See also[edit]

  • The Judge—a 2014 film with a similar plot of a protagonist with a successful big city career drawn back to an old hometown.

References[edit]

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  1. ^ abc'Sweet Home Alabama (2002)'. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved September 19, 2009.
  2. ^https://www.fame10.com/entertainment/7-things-you-didnt-know-about-sweet-home-alabama/
  3. ^https://variety.com/2001/scene/people-news/katherine-towne-1117854784/
  4. ^'Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd Songfacts'. Songfacts.com. Retrieved 2016-07-03.
  5. ^'Sweet Home Alabama'. Rotten Tomatoes. Flixter. Retrieved September 19, 2009.
  6. ^Ebert, Roger. 'Sweet Home Alabama'. Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 13 December 2012.
  7. ^https://web.archive.org/web/20070212133303/http://www.reelviews.net/movies/s/sweet_home.html
  8. ^'Sweet Home Alabama'. Retrieved 2018-08-15.
  9. ^'Various - Sweet Home Alabama (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) on Apple Music'. iTunes. Retrieved 1 January 2002.

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