Sexual content: There are a couple of scenes of passionate kissing. Best of all, the ties that bind two souls together in marriage get huge props from this story. He doesn’t just want to woo her back with money, though, he wants respectability and the self-confidence to provide her with a secure world. After she leaves Jake for the bright lights of the big city, Jake dedicates himself to self-improvement. Melanie isn’t the only one reinventing herself. Her mom desperately wants her to be happy and wishes for her to have all the things she never had.

Her mother and father love her dearly, and even though they haven’t had much contact for nearly a decade, she’s welcomed with open arms when she comes home. And a good sized chunk of her conclusions-and actions-are right on the money. Positive elements: Melanie spends the bulk of her screen time sorting out right from wrong, love from hate, friendship from convenience. So as she clashes with her own culture, she sorts out what’s important. But Jake was her first love, and she’s not quite prepared to discover that seven years isn’t enough time to obliterate all of her buried feelings. For seven years she fled everything she had learned to despise(her hometown, parents and hubby), making a new life for herself (one of glamour, money and prestige). (Gasp! Won’t the tabloids have a field day when they unearth this skeleton!) Melanie married Jake right out of high school, barefoot, pregnant and going nowhere fast. She has to-and here’s the big secret-divorce her husband. It’s the “almost” part that makes the movie work.Įngaged to Andrew, the son of New York City’s mayor, Melanie knows she has to go home to Pigeon Creek, Ala., and face her past before her future does it for her. In Sweet Home Alabama, she’s a poor Southern lass who reinvents herself as a Big Apple socialite-then finds it almost impossible to go home again. In the smash Legally Blonde, she imported an oh-so-California valley girl to the hallowed halls of Harvard. In Pleasantville, she morphed from color to black & white when she and her brother found themselves living in TV Land. Reese Witherspoon is making a fortune impersonating fish out of water.

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