Sweet Home Alabama (2002) Reese Witherspoon Melanie Carmichael Josh Lucas Jake Patrick Dempsey Andrew Hennings Candice Bergen Kate Hennings Mary Kay Place Pearl Smooter Fred Ward Earl Smooter Jean Smart Stella Kay Ethan Embry Bobby Ray Melanie Lynskey Lurlynn Courtney Gains Wade Mary Lynn Rajskub Dorothea Rhona Mitra Tabatha Wadmore-Smith Nathan Lee Graham Frederick Sean Bridgers Eldon Fleet Cooper Clinton Kevin Sussman Barry Thomas Curtis (II) Young Jake Dakota Fanning Young Melanie Mark Skinner Bruno Michelle Krusiec Pan Phil Cater Pablo Michael Snow (II) Devin Bob Penny Wallace Buford Mark Matkevich Tom Darovsic Directed by: Andrew Tennant, Andy Tennant Produced by: Jon Jashni, Wink Mordaunt, Michael Fottrell New York fashion designer Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But Melanie's past holds many secrets, including Jake, the redneck husband she married in high school, who refuses to divorce her. Bound and determined to end their contentious relationship once and for all, Melanie sneaks back home to Alabama to confront her past, only to discover that you can take the girl out of the South, but you can never take the South out of the girl. ========== Melanie Carmichael, an up and rising fashion designer in New York, has gotten almost everything she wished for since she was little. She has a great career and the JFK-like husband of New York City. But when he proposes to her, she doesn't forget about her family back down South - and, more importantly, her husband back there, who refuses to divorce her ever since she sent divorce paper for almost five years. To settle matters straight, she decides to go to the south quick and make him sign the papers. But when things don't turn out the way she planned them out, she realizes that what she had before in the south was far more perfect than the life she had in New York City. ========== Sophisticated Melanie Carmichael, a rising New York clothing designer suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But this is no fairy tale romance for Melanie. She has skeletons in her fashion-filled closet that include Jake - the backwoods husband she married in high school who refuses to divorce her. Determined to end their marriage and sever all ties with her past once and for all, Melanie returns to Alabama. But home starts to tug at her heartstrings, and what she thought she wanted may not be what she wants at all.