Of course Jake does not want to lose his girl again who ran out on him some years earlier. She is is engaged to the son (Patrick Dempsey) of the Mayor of NYC but she is still married to her childhood sweetheart back home in Alabama and must go back home to get a divorce from Jake (Josh Lucas.) Once she returns home she is reminded of her past that she has escaped from. Reese Witherspoon is Melanie, a fashion designer on the rise in the New York fashion scene with an upmarket attitude to match. There is a good notion of big city versus small town values. The characters are all generally nice people. There really isn't a mean spirit in this movie. It brings to mind the lyrics "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free". He angers her and he doesn't give her a divorce. They fight and he doesn't give her a divorce. She's begging for a divorce, and he's a big fat jerk who keeps refusing her. Except he has a handicap from the second challenge. So Josh Lucas has to really sell it in this movie. The mayor's son is actually very charming, very nice, and a great guy overall. This movie faces two challenges from the standard rom-com point of view. She is still married to her childhood love (Josh Lucas) back home in Alabama. He's the son of the Mayor and is quite a charming successful guy. Things are going well when Andrew Hennings (Patrick Dempsey) proposes to her. Melanie (Reese Witherspoon) is a new fashion designer slash southern belle trying to make it in New York. Is a winner for Reese Witherspoon and the audience.
A nice score of country music is part of the soundtrack. She should have gotten some Oscar recognition for her work here. York and she's clearly modeled on a most unflattering portrait of HillaryĬlinton. Candice Bergen is in this film as Dempsey's mother who is the Mayor of New Winning and wonderful and Alabama has it's best foot forward in this film. The distribution arm of Walt Disney films brought this one out. This is a most old fashioned type of film and I'm not surprised that Buena Vista New York sophisticate it doesn't take long for Witherspoon let's the Alabama flow in her. So it's back to Alabama to get Josh Lucas to sign the decree.
Seems like she never quite got around to divorcing her good oldīoy husband from her hometown. It's a dream come true, but there's one small hitch Witherspoon is a highly successful and up and coming close designer in New YorkĪnd she's just gotten rather publicly engaged to Patrick Dempsey whose character Together with Elle Woods in the Legally Blonde movies Reese Witherspoon got her career role in Sweet Home Alabama, This one must have been real popular