Sweet Home Alabama

Sweet Home Alabama is a thoroughly predictable but charming and well-crafted romantic comedy.

Pretty and ambitious Melanie Carmichael is on the verge of her big breakthrough as a designer in New York. At the same time her sweet boyfriend, Andrew, proposes to her. He is, what is more, the son of the city's female mayor Kate Hennings and an up-and-coming politician himself. The only problem is that Melanie has a couple of things she needs to sort out before the dream can come true.

Melanie, you see, is already married to her childhood sweetheart Jake, who still lives in her home town of Pigeon Creek, a little backwater somewhere in Alabama. She has not been there since she walked out on her good-for-nothing husband and her white-trash background several years ago.

Now Melanie has to make a quick trip home to get Jake to sign the divorce papers. Her stay turns out to be a little longer than expected, however, for Jake is not exactly ready to end the marriage. He actually still loves his wife, and even though he falls far short of Melanie's criteria for success, he has in the meantime tried to make himself worthy of her love. Not that Melanie notices!

Jake nevertheless rekindles old feelings - hardly surprising with those blue, blue eyes - and very much against her will Melanie suddenly finds herself facing a crucial dilemma.