Sweet Home Alabama (UK)

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Sometimes What You`re Looking For Is Right Where You Left It
Certificate: 12
Running Time: 108 mins
Retail Price: £19.99
Release Date:
Content Type: Movie

Synopsis:
In Sweet Home Alabama, Reese Witherspoon stars as sophisticated Melanie Carmichael, a rising New York fashion designer who suddenly finds herself engaged to the city`s most eligible bachelor (Patrick Dempsey). but this is no fairy tale romance for Melanie. She has a secret past that includes Jake (Josh Lucas), the backwoods husband she married in high school, who refuses to divorce her. Determined to end their marriage and sever all ties with her past once and for all, Melanie returns to Alabama. But home starts to tug at her heartstrings, and what she thought she wanted may not be what she wants at all...

Special Features:
8 deleted scenes with director intros. Alternate ending with director intro. Director audio commentary. `Mine All Mine` music video.

Video Tracks:
Widescreen Anamorphic 2.35:1

Audio Tracks:
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish
Dolby Digital 5.1 Russian

Subtitle Tracks:
Icelandic
Swedish
Finnish
English
Spanish
CC: English
Portuguese
Croatian
Russian
Arabic
Danish
Norwegian
Slovenian

Directed By:
Andy Tennant

Written By:
C. Jay Cox
Douglas J. Eboch

Starring:
Mary Kay Place
Candice Bergen
Patrick Dempsey
Josh Lucas
Reese Witherspoon

Casting By:
Jeanne McCarthy
Kathleen Chopin
Juel Bestrop

Soundtrack By:
Avril Lavigne
George Fenton

Director of Photography:
Andrew Dunn

Editor:
Tracey Wadmore-Smith
Troy Takaki

Costume Designer:
Sophie Carbonell

Production Designer:
Clay A. Griffith

Producer:
Neal H. Moritz
Stokely Chaffin

Executive Producer:
Wink Mordaunt
Jon J. Jashni
Michael Fottrell

Distributor:
Buena Vista

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8 / 10

A cute romantic comedy (which isn`t that comic, come to think of it), about a city-girl rediscovering her roots back in Alabama.
The video transfer is very good. There are no compression signs and the picture is sharp.
The DD 5.1 soundtrack is good. The surrounds are used occasionally and give a nice enveloping sound.
The menus are animated with sound.
The extras include a commentary, 9 deleted scenes (including an alternate ending and a brilliantly edited phone scene) and a music video.
Bottom line - yet another sweet movie from the star of "Legally Blonde".

posted by Zvi Josef on 23/1/2004 13:42