Sweet Home Alabama (2002) on Netflix
Melanie Smooter has built a fashion career in New York under the name Carmichael. Engaged to Andrew Hennings, she must get Jake Perry, her husband in Alabama, to sign divorce papers.
- Netflix3.7/5
- IMDb6.2/10137,089 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes38%
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Plot summary
In Pigeon Creek, Alabama, Jake Perry and Melanie Smooter are children on a beach where lightning has struck the sand; Jake declares they are soulmates and will marry. Years later Melanie works as a fashion designer in New York, where she goes by the surname Carmichael to keep her Southern upbringing out of sight. Andrew Hennings, the son of Mayor Kate Hennings, proposes to her, and Kate questions whether Melanie suits a son she is grooming for the presidency. Melanie travels home to tell Earl and Pearl Smooter about the engagement and to settle things with Jake, the husband she married as a teenager and left seven years earlier. Jake has ignored the divorce papers she sent him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Sweet Home Alabama (2002)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film grossed over $35 million in its first weekend, beating The Tuxedo and Barbershop to number one, and its September opening weekend record, taken from Rush Hour, stood for a decade until Hotel Transylvania broke it in 2012.
- Sweet Home Alabama sold 2 million DVD copies on its first day of release and went on to sell 7.40 million copies, earning a profit of over 128.7 million dollars.
- Made on a reported budget of $30 million, the film grossed over $130 million in the United States by the end of its run and another $53,399,006 internationally, a box office hit despite mixed reviews.
