Sweet Home Alabama is a 2002 romantic comedy film directed by Andy Tennant and starring Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas, Patrick Dempsey, Fred Ward, Mary Kay Place, Jean Smart, and Candice Bergen.
Synopsis[]
A city fashion designer is proposed to by her boyfriend. There is one problem: she is still technically married to her husband back in her Alabama small town.
Cast[]
- Reese Witherspoon as Melanie Carmichael (née Smooter)
- Dakota Fanning as Young Melanie
- Josh Lucas as Jake Perry
- Thomas Curtis as Young Jake
- Patrick Dempsey as Andrew Hennings
- Fred Ward as Earl Smooter
- Mary Kay Place as Pearl Smooter
- Jean Smart as Stella Kay Perry
- Ethan Embry as Bobby Ray Bailey
- Melanie Lynskey as Lurlynn
- Courtney Gains as Sheriff Wade
- Mary Lynn Rajskub as Dorothea
- Rhona Mitra as Tabatha Wadmore-Smith
- Nathan Lee Graham as Frederick Montana
- Candice Bergen as Kate Hennings
- Kevin Sussman as Barry Lowenstein
- Katharine Towne as Erin Vanderbilt
Trivia[]
- The title is taken from the 1974 Lynyrd Skynyrd song of the same name.
- This was the first film to shoot following 9/11.
- Charlize Theron was originally cast in the lead, but left following the writer's strike.