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10/08/02
Sweet Home Alabama (2002)
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Reviews Counted:154
Fresh:57
Rotten:97
Average Rating:5.2/10
Consensus: Reese Witherspoon is charming enough, but the road to Alabama is well-traveled.
Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins
Genre: Comedies
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... [More]
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Joshua Lucas, Candice Bergen, Patrick Dempsey
Director: Andy Tennant
Reviews for Sweet Home Alabama
If this is Witherspoon’s idea of a good career move, someone get this woman a career counselor, pronto.
10/08/02
Here is a movie that asks us to adore a miserable young woman who wrecks lives, treats people like discarded Biore strips and embodies the absolute worst side of metropolitan arrogance
10/08/02
Witherspoon is so unquestionably likable that it speaks volumes that Sweet Home Alabama can turn her into a grating ingrate who we neither root for nor comprehend.
10/07/02
'It’s painful to watch Witherspoon’s talents wasting away inside unnecessary films like Legally Blonde and Sweet Home Abomination, I mean, Alabama.'
10/04/02
...minus the vivacious charm of its lead star, the movie would have easily been a waste of celluloid.
10/03/02
Reese Witherspoon is such a skilled comedienne that it’s a shame that people seem to prefer seeing her in films like Sweet Home Alabama, which are completely unworthy of her talents.
10/03/02
As chick flicks go, this is more than passable.
10/03/02
Any movie with Reese Witherspoon may or may not have it all, but with her in it, it certainly has more than enough.
10/03/02
A hamfisted romantic comedy that makes our girl the hapless facilitator of an extended cheap shot across the Mason-Dixon line.
10/03/02
Witherspoon and her huge forehead really were pretty funny and this movie was much better than her last effort, "Legally Blonde."
10/02/02
It's as preposterous and phony as a Confederate C-note, but Reese Witherspoon has so much natural beauty, talent and charm she guarantees more fun than the day the hogs ate Willie.
10/02/02
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Top CriticFamiliar but utterly delightful.
10/02/02
Although the winsome actress is afforded the opportunity to demonstrate her usual perky persona, Witherspoon cannot lend her magic to this irritating and witless marshmellow of a movie.
10/02/02
feels disingenuous at the end when it attempts to celebrate all that it had previously made fun of
10/02/02
It's a fairy tale you've heard before, with nothing special to get your attention -- no zip, no snap, no zing.
10/02/02
Rescued from mediocrity by Reese Witherspoon.
10/02/02
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