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NUMBERS
Box Office: $127,214,072
VHS Rentals: $25,040,000
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CONSENSUS
Reese Witherspoon is charming enough, but the road to Alabama is well-traveled.
CAST & CREW
Reese Witherspoon, Candice Bergen, Patrick Dempsey
Directed by Andy Tennant
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SYNOPSIS
Reese Witherspoon stars in SWEET HOME ALABAMA, a charming romantic comedy directed by Andy Tennant. Witherspoon is Melanie Carmichael, a Southern girl who leaves her past behind in order to find success as a fashion designer in New York City. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, some language/sexual references
RUNTIME
1 hour, 49 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Sep 27, 2002
Video: Feb 4, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Touchstone Pictures
GENRE
Comedies, Romance, Divorce, Romantic Comedy, New York City, Small Town Life
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Sweet Home Alabama Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
TIDBITS
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SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
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 "Sweet Home Alabama isn't going to win any Academy Awards, but this date-night diversion will definitely win some hearts."
-- Staci Layne Wilson, FANTASTICA DAILY
 "The movie weighs no more than a glass of flat champagne."
-- Robert Wilonsky, DALLAS OBSERVER
"Sweet Home Alabama is one dumb movie, but its stupidity is so relentlessly harmless that it almost wins you over in the end."
-- Glenn Whipp, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"There isn’t nearly enough fun here, despite the presence of some appealing ingredients."
-- Brian Webster, APOLLO GUIDE
"Responsável direto pelo fracasso 'artístico' de Doce Lar, o roteirista C. Jay Cox não consegue sequer aproveitar os pouquíssimos momentos em que escapa da mediocridade."
-- Pablo Villaca, CINEMA EM CENA
"Loads on the sappy romance, but still manages to be 'cute' and entertaining."
-- John Venable, SUPERCALA.COM
"Don’t plan on the perfect ending, but Sweet Home Alabama hits the mark with critics who escaped from a small town life."
-- Joshua Tyler, FILM HOBBIT
"Familiar but utterly delightful."
-- Doris Toumarkine, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"Lame Sweet Home leaves no Southern stereotype unturned."
-- Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
"Offers very little genuine romance and even fewer laughs...a sad sitcom of a movie, largely devoid of charm."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"A light, engaging comedy that fumbles away almost all of its accumulated enjoyment with a crucial third act miscalculation."
-- Brent Simon, ENTERTAINMENT TODAY
"Witherspoon and her huge forehead really were pretty funny and this movie was much better than her last effort, "Legally Blonde.""
-- Dan Marcucci and Nancy Serougi, BROOMFIELD ENTERPRISE
"A hamfisted romantic comedy that makes our girl the hapless facilitator of an extended cheap shot across the Mason-Dixon line."
-- Steve Schneider, ORLANDO WEEKLY
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"Melanie eventually slugs the Yankee. Too bad the former Murphy Brown doesn't pop Reese back."
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"For a film that's being advertised as a comedy, Sweet Home Alabama isn't as funny as you'd hoped. For a film that's being advertised as a comedy, Sweet Home Alabama isn't as funny as you'd hoped."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"Any resemblance to reality is strenuously avoided in a piece of fluff made watchable by Reese Witherspoon. The blonde cookie with a sweet heart and the
most formidable Texan twang in Tinseltown is too good to be appearing in
lazy formula films."
-- Urban Cinefile Critics, URBAN CINEFILE
"Sweet Home Alabama certainly won't be remembered as one of [Witherspoon's] better films."
-- Derek Tse, JAM! MOVIES
"Sweet Home Alabama” is what it is – a nice, harmless date film..."
-- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES
"The plot is nothing but boilerplate clichés from start to finish, and the script assumes that not only would subtlety be lost on the target audience, but that it's also too stupid to realize that they've already seen this exact same movie a hundred times"
-- Dawn Taylor, PORTLAND TRIBUNE
"Very predictable but still entertaining"
-- Stefan Birgir Stefansson, SBS.IS
"It's hard not to be seduced by [Witherspoon's] charisma, even in this run-of-the-mill vehicle, because this girl knows how to drive it to the max."
-- Gerry Shamray, SUN NEWSPAPERS OF CLEVELAND
"A passable romantic comedy, in need of another couple of passes through the word processor."
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®
"'It’s painful to watch Witherspoon’s talents wasting away inside unnecessary films like Legally Blonde and Sweet Home Abomination, I mean, Alabama.'"
-- Anita Schmaltz, METRO TIMES
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ROTTEN 39%
Avg. Rating: 5/10 |
"Every time you look, Sweet Home Alabama is taking another bummer of a wrong turn."
-- Stephanie Zacharek, SALON.COM
"The movie is genial but never inspired, and little about it will stay with you."
-- Philip Wuntch, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"It's leaden and predictable, and laughs are lacking."
-- Bruce Westbrook, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"Even in this less-than-magic kingdom, Reese rules."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"A banal, virulently unpleasant excuse for a romantic comedy."
-- Susan Stark, DETROIT NEWS
"Despite her relentless vim and winsome facial symmetry, Witherspoon is just too dialed-up to be America's Sweetheart."
-- Laura Sinagra, VILLAGE VOICE
"Shallow."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"Would be an unendurable viewing experience for this ultra-provincial New Yorker if 26-year-old Reese Witherspoon were not on hand to inject her pure fantasy character, Melanie Carmichael, with a massive infusion of old-fashioned Hollywood magic."
-- Andrew Sarris, NEW YORK OBSERVER
"It is definitely worth seeing."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"If you can tolerate the redneck-versus-blueblood cliches that the film trades in, Sweet Home Alabama is diverting in the manner of Jeff Foxworthy's stand-up act."
-- Carrie Rickey, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
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"That 'Alabama' manages to be pleasant in spite of its predictability and occasional slowness is due primarily to the perkiness of Witherspoon (who is always a joy to watch, even when her material is not first-rate)..."
-- James Sanford, KALAMAZOO GAZETTE
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* Who are the Approved Tomatometer Critics?
* Mouse over a tomato icon for a publication's original rating. Original rating not available for every publication.
* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Sweet Home Alabama" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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