“Sweet Home Alabama” is a predictable romantic comedy from start to finish. The stale storyline from Douglas J. Eboch seems be an attempt to make a movie soley on the basis of the 1974 Lynyrd Skynyrd song of the same name. Director Andy Tennant (“Anna and the King” 1999) could not do much with this idea or the ho-hum screenplay by C. Jay Cox.
Star Reese Witherspoon seems phony in the lead role of Melanie, which rubs off on co-stars Josh Lucas, Patrick Dempsey, Candice Bergen, Mary Kay Place, Fred Ward, Jean Smart, Ethan Embry, Melanie Lynskey, Courtney Gains, Rhona Mitra, Nathan Lee Graham, Kevin Sussman, Katharine Towne, and Mary Lynn Rajskub, who would soon become famous as Chloe O’Brien on the action thriller television series “24” (2003-2010). Dakota Fanning has a small part as the young Melanie.
“Sweet Home Alabama” was successful in theatrical release for Original Film, Touchstone Pictures, and Buena Vista Pictures Distribution.
Sweet Home Alabama (2002)
cinema
My Review
“Sweet Home Alabama” is a predictable romantic comedy from start to finish. The stale storyline from Douglas J. Eboch seems be an attempt to make a movie soley on the basis of the 1974 Lynyrd Skynyrd song of the same name. Director Andy Tennant (“Anna and the King” 1999) could not do much with this idea or the ho-hum screenplay by C. Jay Cox.
Star Reese Witherspoon seems phony in the lead role of Melanie, which rubs off on co-stars Josh Lucas, Patrick Dempsey, Candice Bergen, Mary Kay Place, Fred Ward, Jean Smart, Ethan Embry, Melanie Lynskey, Courtney Gains, Rhona Mitra, Nathan Lee Graham, Kevin Sussman, Katharine Towne, and Mary Lynn Rajskub, who would soon become famous as Chloe O’Brien on the action thriller television series “24” (2003-2010). Dakota Fanning has a small part as the young Melanie.
“Sweet Home Alabama” was successful in theatrical release for Original Film, Touchstone Pictures, and Buena Vista Pictures Distribution.