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Sweet Home Alabama (2002)

★ 6.4 · 1,692 ratings on TMDB

Sometimes What You're Looking For Is Right Where You Left It.

Sweet Home Alabama poster★ 6.4

New York fashion designer, Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But her past holds many secrets—including Jake, the redneck husband she married in high school, who refuses to divorce her. Bound and determined to end their contentious relationship once and for all, Melanie sneaks back home to Alabama to confront her past.

The emergence reading

Sweet Home Alabama keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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