MOVIE · 2002

Sweet Home Alabama

ComedyRomance108 min

Reese Witherspoon is Melanie Carmichael, a New York fashion designer whose engagement to the city’s most eligible bachelor sends her back to Alabama with one major problem: she’s still married. Seven years after reinventing herself uptown, Melanie heads home to get a divorce from Jake (Josh Lucas), the high school sweetheart she left behind and never fully untangled herself from. With Patrick Dempsey as the fiancé waiting in New York, the trip turns into a collision between small-town history, family expectations, and the life Melanie has carefully built for herself.