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Just don’t go looking for the house used as Jake’s from the movie. It contains stunning gardens from the 1930s and offers guided tours of the interior with admission. The Martha Berry Museum, near the home’s entrance, educates visitors on Berry’s life along with the history of the school and the town of Rome. Together with Elle Woods in the Legally Blonde movies Reese Witherspoon got her career role in Sweet Home Alabama, This one must have been real popular in the red states. I do not know where to start, I was liking this movie, but I didn't think it was going to be so cliché and cheesy at the end, I was very disappointed. The movie has quite funny parts that made me laugh out loud, it starts very well and the plot unfolds in a more or less coherent and entertaining way.
She is one tough politician who is as cold as ice and predictably obsessed with her public image. Others include the independent, feminist girlfriend, the redneck buddies and a gay fashion designer. Aside from being a love story, this film shows us that you cannot escape your past, no matter how hard you try. Everywhere she turns Reese's character is beset by the people and events of her youth. Old friends seem almost compelled to reminisce about their youthful escapades.
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Reese Witherspoon can't do much wrong at least most cases. Very sweet with a nice balance of comedy but more of a romance than anything to me. I really enjoy anything with Ethan Embry he's great in Can't Hardly Wait, Cheap Thrills, and Devils Candy. Also Andy Tennent makes a lot of great feel-good flicks, I should watch more of his projects. This is a fine, funny movie that relies more on an ensemble cast than just on Reese Witherspoon.
To put what Tennant has done here into perspective, one must place him on the scale by which directors of romantic comedy are judged. On the strength of her `Return To Me,' Bonnie Hunt shares the apex of the chart with the undisputed master of the RC, Nora Ephron, both of whom register at the 100th percentile. At the nadir of the chart is Adam Shankman (`The Wedding Planner'), with a `0' percentile. Granted, he was handed a poor script (how did this get the green light in the first place? It's been DONE already!), but he exhibits a veritable lack of vision with a truly unimaginative rendering of the material.
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Reese Witherspoon terrific heartfelt performance makes this movie work. I originally had my doubts about seeing this one but I bought the DVD and I highly enjoyed the movie. Reese Witherspoon has good chemistry with both Patrick Dempsey and Josh Lucas. The film although predictable is full of funny moments and a lot of heart. The interstate mentioned should be I-65 as it runs closest to Greenville. Had they actually filmed the movie entirely in Alabama and not Georgia the production could have possibly avoided a number of flaws and errors.
It just doesn't have any substance whatsoever, and the few attempts at bringing in some actual conflict come of as extremely stilted. This is one of those movies where people get mad at each other for the vaguest of reasons, only to forget all about it two lines later. This could make the movie extremely boring, but thankfully it's not. Reese Witherspoon's sparkling persona pretty much carries the movie, and the inoffensive story lines leave plenty of room for corny yet touching romantic scenes. The climax could have been a lot more exciting than it is, but I guess it fits the overall atmosphere of the movie . "Sweet Home Alabama" is by no means great cinema, but it's pretty easy to sit through I guess.
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The 2002 film Sweet Home Alabama tells of a fashion designer in New York City who must return to her small hometown to get a divorce from her high school boyfriend. Witherspoon is a highly successful and up and coming close designer in New York and she's just gotten rather publicly engaged to Patrick Dempsey whose character is no doubt based on JFK, Jr. It's a dream come true, but there's one small hitch in the design. Seems like she never quite got around to divorcing her good old boy husband from her hometown. Melanie Carmichael , seven years removed from her roots in Alabama has achieved success in the Big Apple.
See why these romantic destinations have charmed some of the biggest stars in Hollywood. "I did think the ending would work," Lucas told Insider. While looking back on the movie for its 20th anniversary, Tennant talked to Insider about how, in the original ending, test audiences thought Witherspoon's Melanie character died.
On a beach in the fictional town of Pigeon Creek, Alabama, 10-year-olds Jake Perry and Melanie Smooter inspect the result of lightning striking sand. Who can forget Patrick Dempsey’s character going down on one knee to propose to Melanie in a Tiffany’s? This was shot at the legendary store in the Big Apple, and interestingly, it was the first time that the brand allowed filming to take place on premises since the shoot of ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ .
The writing is smart and funny, the directing fits the comedic mood of the story, and the acting is just right. Although it is a quite different film from "Legally Blonde" and "Election", I enjoyed it just as much, and will enjoy it upon repeat viewings. The streets and storefronts of Crawfordville, Georgia, were used as the backdrop for the Catfish Festival and other downtown scenes.
I enjoyed Sweet Home Alabama, too, and had always wondered if the part about the lightning-strike sand-glass was true or not -- but never got around to researching it. It was very interesting to read the facts behind the dramatization. The communities south of Atlanta have been full of film productions over the last few years.
The stunning grounds were one of the three display gardens in the state. The Judge—a 2014 film with a similar plot of a protagonist with a successful big city career drawn back to an old hometown. 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 near the campus of Berry College in Rome, Georgia.
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