Jake drinks on several occasions, once with his buddies on top of the town’s water tower.
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Afterwards, she’s only shown from a distance through the windows when she throws up all over Jake’s truck and passes out. Melanie drinks herself into oblivion at the bar (martinis are her drink of choice). Melanie and Jake both regret that he was drunk on their wedding night.
About 25 mild profanities and about that same number of exclamatory abuses of the Lord’s name (“Jesus” is used twice and “Christ” three times).ĭrug and alcohol content: Champagne is served at a fashion show, and hard liquor and beer flows freely at an Alabama honky-tonk. A trio of crude expressions for sexual body parts. A man is tackled by security guards.Ĭrude or profane language: Seven or eight s-words. Reacting angrily toward a woman who disrespects her mother, Melanie punches her in the face, knocking her to the ground. Reenactments of the Civil War involve explosions and gunfire. Violent content: Lightning strikes very near two children. When he first meets Jake, he brightens and coyly claims, “I saw him first.” It’s intimated that Melanie’s fashion mentor in New York is gay. Irreconcilably, he quickly comes to grips with his “outing” and even cracks a joke about it when he’s hanging out with the guys a few scenes later. (Melanie smirks about how that would explain a certain game of Post Office she played with the woman when they were children.) Pool balls serve as double entendres for a man in Alabama who Melanie “outs” as homosexual. A woman who becomes a softball coach is branded a lesbian. There’s also a thread of homosexual jesting and innuendo that runs through the film. There are several remarks about sexual activity (for instance, Melanie quips that the only reason she and Jake fell in love was that she was the “first girl to climb into the back of his truck”). At a fashion show, women bare considerable amounts of cleavage. Sexual content: There are a couple of scenes of passionate kissing. Best of all, the ties that bind two souls together in marriage get huge props from this story. He doesn’t just want to woo her back with money, though, he wants respectability and the self-confidence to provide her with a secure world. After she leaves Jake for the bright lights of the big city, Jake dedicates himself to self-improvement. Melanie isn’t the only one reinventing herself. Her mom desperately wants her to be happy and wishes for her to have all the things she never had. Her mother and father love her dearly, and even though they haven’t had much contact for nearly a decade, she’s welcomed with open arms when she comes home. And a good sized chunk of her conclusions-and actions-are right on the money. Positive elements: Melanie spends the bulk of her screen time sorting out right from wrong, love from hate, friendship from convenience. So as she clashes with her own culture, she sorts out what’s important.
But Jake was her first love, and she’s not quite prepared to discover that seven years isn’t enough time to obliterate all of her buried feelings. For seven years she fled everything she had learned to despise(her hometown, parents and hubby), making a new life for herself (one of glamour, money and prestige). (Gasp! Won’t the tabloids have a field day when they unearth this skeleton!) Melanie married Jake right out of high school, barefoot, pregnant and going nowhere fast. She has to-and here’s the big secret-divorce her husband. It’s the “almost” part that makes the movie work.Įngaged to Andrew, the son of New York City’s mayor, Melanie knows she has to go home to Pigeon Creek, Ala., and face her past before her future does it for her. In Sweet Home Alabama, she’s a poor Southern lass who reinvents herself as a Big Apple socialite-then finds it almost impossible to go home again. In the smash Legally Blonde, she imported an oh-so-California valley girl to the hallowed halls of Harvard.
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In Pleasantville, she morphed from color to black & white when she and her brother found themselves living in TV Land. Reese Witherspoon is making a fortune impersonating fish out of water.
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