Sweet Home Albama: A romantic comedy

Sweet Home Alabama is a 2002 American romantic comedy film directed by Andy Tennant and stars Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas, and Patrick Dempsey.

The film opens on an Alabama beach with two children chasing each other: Melanie Smooter and Jake Perry. The two discuss their future together. They kiss, and Jake says they will be married one day.

The scene then moves to the present day. Melanie (Reese Witherspoon) has changed her last name to Carmichael and is now a successful fashion designer in New York City. After becoming engaged to Andrew (Patrick Dempsey), the mayor’s son, Melanie announces
that she has to go back home alone to Alabama to tell her parents. She has not told Andrew that she is married to Jake (Josh Lucas).

Upon arrival in Alabama, Melanie demands a divorce and an explanation why Jake has for the last seven years returned the divorce papers unsigned. Jake refuses to sign the papers. Melanie retaliates by emptying out their joint checking account.

After following Jake to a local bar, Melanie gets drunk and embarrasses herself in front of her friends confessing that she had previously been pregnant with Jake’s baby and revealing that a mutual friend, Bobby Ray, is gay. Jake becomes angry with her and
takes her home. When she wakes up the next morning, the divorce papers are lying on her bed signed by Jake.

Soon after, Melanie visits the Carmichael Plantation and tries to apologize to Bobby Ray. Though Bobby Ray accepts the apology, he explicitly tells Melanie that Jake is not the only person she left behind, expressing the sadness that all her friends have
felt after she fled to New York City years ago. Just as Melanie is leaving the plantation, she finds herself cornered by a pushy reporter who claims to be from the New York Post (though in reality he is the assistant of Andrew’s mother) and asks for a tour
of the beautiful plantation where Melanie supposedly grew up.

The rest is up to you if you want to watch as it is not worth watching and better not to waste your time.

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