Sweet Home Alabama (film)

Sweet Home Alabama is a 2002 American romantic comedy film directed by Andy Tennant, starring Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas, Patrick Dempsey and Candice Bergen. The film was released by Touchstone Pictures.

In the present day, Melanie Reese Witherspoon, who has changed her last name to Carmichael to hide her poor Southern roots, is a successful upandcoming fashion designer in New York City. After becoming engaged to the mayors son Andrew Patrick Dempsey, Melanie announces that she has to go back home alone to Alabama to tell her parents. In reality she is going to procure a divorce from her estranged husband Jake Josh Lucas, to whom she is still married. Andrews mother Candice Bergen expresses doubt that Melanie is good enough for her son.In Alabama, Melanie demands a divorce and asks Jake why he has returned the divorce papers unsigned for the last seven years. Jake again refuses to sign the papers this time being that she has not visited her parents before him and orders her out of his house. When she does not, he calls the sheriff, who at first refuses to intervene as he is a friend of theirs, but when it is revealed Melanie drove a tractor into his pond, he holds her at the station. Melanie calls her parents, who do not know she is in town, and her father Fred Ward picks her up. Its revealed that Jake showed up drunk to their wedding. She announces her engagement, much to the delight of her mother Mary Kay Place. The next day, hoping to spur Jake to sign the papers, Melanie empties out his checking account, after learning that its a joint account with her name on it. Jake says he will sign the papers, sadly stating nobody meets their soulmate when theyre ten years old, but then says he will do so after a date with a local girl, retorting that if she is seeing someone else, so should he. After following Jake to a local bar, Melanie gets drunk and embarrasses herself in front of her friends, expressing disgust at their lifestyle, confessing that Jake got her pregnant and outing a mutual friend, Bobby Ray. Jake becomes angry with her and takes her home. When Melanie wakes up the next morning, the divorce papers are lying on her bed, finally signed by Jake. ........

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