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Melanie Carmichael (Reese Witherspoon), an up and rising fashion designer in New York, has gotten almost everything she wished for since she was little. She has a great career and the JFK-like fiancée of New York City. But when he proposes to her, she doesn’t forget about her family back down South.
More importantly, her husband back there, who refuses to divorce her ever since she sent divorce papers seven years ago. To set matters straight, she decides to go to the south quick and make him sign the papers. When things don’t turn out the way she planned them, she realizes that what she had before in the south was far more perfect than the life she had in New York City.
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 on September 27, 2002.
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.
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 movie 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.
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.
Sweet Home Alabama (2002)
Directed by: Andy Tennant
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Candice Bergen, Patrick Dempsey, Josh Lucas, Rhona Mitra, Ethan Embry, Jean Smart, Katherine Towne, Mary Kay Place, Melanie Lynskey
Screenplay by: Douglas Eboch, C. Jay Cox, Andy Tennant
Production Design by: Clay A. Griffith
Cinematography by: Andrew Dunn
Film Editing by: Troy Takaki, Tracey Wadmore-Smith
Set Decoration by: Lisa K. Sessions, Sophie Carbonell
Art Direction by: Jay Pelissier
Makeup Department: Wendy Bell, John Caglione Jr, Sarah Mays
Music by: George Fenton, Avril Lavigne
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some language/sexual references.
Distributed by: Buena Vista Pictures
Release Date: September 27, 2002
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