Elle est composée en réaction à deux chansons de Neil Young, Southern Man et Alabama, où celui-ci dénonçait le racisme des habitants des États du sud des États-Unis. 2:22 Sweet Home Alabama. Reluctantly we saw this and I thought it was rather fun. Or actual human beings. From the iconic to the eclectic, relive the most memorable moments from the Oscars red carpet. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 22, 2017. It's a romantic film if you like this sort of thing, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 24, 2021, I did not like this movie itcwas not my cup of tea, Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2021, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. I love the shots in the rain they are just so pretty. Every single statement that comes from a male actor is a command, and when finally, a question does arise, Dempsey rebukes her response and acts patronizingly towards her reaction. Benjamin Barry is an advertising executive and ladies' man who, to win a big campaign, bets that he can make a woman fall in love with him in 10 days. Snore feast! Rated PG-13 for some language/sexual references, This Week In Music: Sabrina Carpenter ‘Answer Song’ Takes Center Stage In Disney Drama, Hear me out: why Maid in Manhattan isn't a bad movie, 12 best Candice Bergen films ranked, including ‘Carnal Knowledge,’ ‘Starting Over,’ ‘Let Them All Talk’ [Photos], Everything Coming to Hulu in December 2017, Most Beautiful Movie Wedding Dress, part 2. Sweet Home Alabama chords Lynyrd Skynyrd 1974 (Second Helping) [Opening] Form a D chord, then pick the single strings D D B\G Form a C chord, then … I found Tennant's direction serviceable, if basic. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 15, 2017, Love this film could watch it over and over again, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 12, 2019. only just watched and disc does not play well all through - couple of seize ups - unfortunate. A young woman who's reinvented herself as a New York City socialite must return home to Alabama to obtain a divorce from her husband, after seven years of separation. The song, written in response to songs by Neil Young critical of the American south and Alabama specifically, became one of their biggest hits and an anthem for both the state of Alabama and the American south. We first saw this film at the cinema as there was not much on. There are no TV Airings of Sweet Home Alabama in the next 14 days. I think she is an amazing actress and this movie is one of her best work ever. Moving to New York, she hits it big by designing her own clothes, and meets and hopes to marry the son of a big political piece. I actually love the cinematography throughout the movie, especially for this kind of movie. kay. It got comedy, romance, love triangle and hotties... Hotties everywhere! Only problem is she is still married. She knows all the rules. I feel we don't get movies like this one anymore. A pushy boss forces her young assistant to marry her in order to keep her visa status in the U.S. and avoid deportation to Canada. Agent must go undercover in the Miss United States beauty pageant to prevent a group from bombing the event. The more I watch it, the more I like it. This is not a Romance comedy. She knows all the tricks. This song was written as an answer to the songs "Southern Man" and "Alabama" by Neil Young, who wrote them about the racism and slavery in the South. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Sweet Home Alabama (2002) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. (Except black folks, who'd better not expect to see black folks living in the Alabama of THIS movie.) Looks like it was a copy, went straight in the bin. Audience Reviews for Sweet Home Alabama. An F.B.I. Recommended by The Wall Street Journal But don't imagine that you're seeing anything to do with the actual South. Single-girl anxiety causes Kat Ellis to hire a male escort to pose as her boyfriend at her sister's wedding. Melanie Carmichael, an up and rising fashion designer in New York, has gotten almost everything she wished for since she was little. Directed by Andy Tennant. She decides to follow him to law school. The rest of the flick is her seeking to do that, and then surprise, slowly begins to fall in love with her ex and the life she left behind. A girl makes a wish on her thirteenth birthday, and wakes up the next day as a thirty-year-old woman. From the song Sweet Home Alabama, known for being played as an indicator for incest. While you might think this all-star cast is enough to secure blockbuster success, it is really the script that the film is best known for. The 2002 hit movie Sweet Home Alabama stars Reese Witherspoon as Melanie Carmichael, Josh Lucas as Jake Perry, Patrick Dempsey as Andrew Hennings, and Candice Bergen as Mayor Kate Hennings—Andrew’s intimidating and oftentimes controlling mom. I read the book years ago that this movie was based on, but could not find it to re-read. Reese Witherspoon herself, a well-bred Episcopalian débutante from Nashville, is a negation of Southern stereotypes, and an example of the Southerners we never see as characters in movies.Meanwhile the movie itself is so innocuous that it dissolves while you're watching it. Elle Woods, a fashionable sorority queen, is dumped by her boyfriend. Case flimsy too. (Mostly.) Sweet Home Alabama Song. I even love the soundtrack which came as a surprise to me when I first saw this film as a nyc girl that I could actually like country music and this was kind of a gateway to discover that. Mary Fiore is San Francisco's most successful supplier of romance and glamor. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. country love story, that works out, reunited love, Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2017. probably one of the best love story movies ever. Although the end is predictable, the ride there is sweet as molasses. Her plan, an attempt to dupe her ex-fiancé, who dumped her a couple years prior, proves to be her undoing. I've been sitting through the unending USA Network commercials for their showing of the flick, and getting the impression that the only reason they're showing it is to piggyback on the popularity of Dr. McDreamy.