Sweet Home Alabama Character: Melanie Carmichael/Melanie Smooter Perry Year: 2004 Release Date September 27, 2002 Directed By: Andy Tennant Screenwriter: Douglas J. Eboch, C. Jay Cox Genre: Comedy, Romance MPAA Rating: PG-13 Cast Highlights: ...Josh Lucas ...Patrick Dempsey ...Candice Bergen Filming Locations: Los Angeles, California, USA Massachusetts, USA Illinois, USA

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After leaving Alabama to pursue a career in fashion in New York City, Melanie’s past suddenly comes back to haunt her when her finance in New York proposes to her unaware Melanie is already married to her redneck high school sweetheart back in Alabama. Sneaking back to Alabama to finalise the divorce once and for all, Melanie is reminded of the past and the people she left behind and left with the decision of a lifetime.

• Reese says that her Sweet Home Alabama character is most like her out of all of the women that she has played. • Charlize Theron was originally cast as Melanie Carmichael, but due to the actor's strike, she jumped to a ready-to-go movie Trapped. Reese was cast the same weekend that Legally Blonde opened. • Andy Tennant directed Reese 10 years before in Desperate Choices: To Save My Child.

• “Look at you, you have a baby... In a bar.” • “Well, you must be Jake's hot date. I'm Melanie, Jake's snotty Yankee bitch wife whom he refuses to divorce.” • “I never fully understood that expression, but no, I am not "shitting" you.” • “You expect me to say that you look good? What'd they run out of soap at the Piggly Wiggly since I left?”