![]() ![]() ![]() It takes some chutzpah, this soon after 9/11, to bash New York, but Sweet Home Alabama revels in Rebel stereotypes about Northern materialism and Southern comforts. But before they can be married at the Plaza Hotel, Melanie has unfinished business to attend to back in Alabama she must get Jake (Lucas), the redneck husband she has not seen in seven years, to sign their divorce papers. She has the glamorous son of the city's mayor so enthralled that, in a kind of late-night Breakfast at Tiffany's, he arranges a surprise private visit to that opulent trinket shop and invites his beloved to select any ring. ![]() Melanie Carmichael (Witherspoon) is a Dixie chick who conquers New York with needles rather than swords, by becoming a fabulously successful fashion designer. Though only a few of the characters in Sweet Home Alabama don military uniforms and participate in battlefield reenactments, the entire movie is still engaged in Civil War hostilities. ![]()
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