Sweet Home Alabama (2002) (Movie)

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Melanie Carmichael: Look at you, you have a baby... In a bar.

stars  This was Patrick Dempsey and Courtney Gains second movie together. They played BFFs in 1987's "Can't Buy Me Love".

stars  Two dogs mentioned in the movie, "Bear" and "Bryant", are references to legendary University of Alabama head football coach Paul 'Bear' Bryant.

stars  Charlize Theron was originally cast as Melanie Carmichael, but due to the actor's strike, she jumped to a ready-to-go movie Trapped (2002). Reese Witherspoon was cast the same weekend that Legally Blonde (2001) opened.

stars  An entire character (along with a subplot about her) was deleted from the film, when test audiences consistently misunderstood her relationship with Andrew. Erin Vanderbilt (played by Katharine Towne) survives in the finished movie only in a newspaper wedding announcement shown to Melanie during the closing credits.

stars  The first movie to be allowed to shoot in New York after the 11 September 2001 attacks.