Sweet Home Alabama : Movie Review


Sweet Home Alabama (2002) - Movie PosterIn the new romantic comedy "Sweet Home Alabama," Reese Witherspoon plays Melanie Carmichael, a hot New York fashion designer who, on the night of her debut collection, is whisked off to Tiffany's for a marriage proposal. Her boyfriend (who's the mayor's son) pops the question amid stacks of robin-blue boxes and a cortege of smiling staff weighed down with treasure. Melanie beams, accepts, then pounces on a diamond bigger than the Ritz and the Plaza put together. She may be a romantic, but she knows good value, which is why she's soon headed south of the Mason-Dixon Line, returning to her humble past to divorce the hick she left behind.

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Author : Manohla Dargis