Sweet Home Alabama

Hey Everyone!!! It’s March 5th, I’m getting ready to celebrate my birthday in ten days March 15th! I will be turning 27 years old.

 I’m very excited, I have decided to write about the movie Sweet Home Alabama starring Reese Witherspoon, Patrick Dempsey and Josh Lucas.

 The movie starts out in the town of Pigeon Creek Alabama, with a ten year old boy named Jake Perry and Ten year old Girl named Melanie Smooter who are inspecting a result of a lighting strike that hit the sand, Jake tells Melanie they will be married one day a few years go by and we are in the present day.

We see Melanie all grown up into a full grown woman she is a successful New York Fashion Designer who has gotten a new name which is Carmichael to hide her southern roots. 

After her boyfriend Andrew Hennings  who is very wealthy proposes, Melanie returns to her hometown Alabama to announce her engagement , and finalize a divorce from her husband Jake, who she married when she was expecting a baby as a teenager and she ended up with a miscarriage and then she left.

In the meantime Andrews mother and the mayor of New York City is doubting Melanie’s suitability to marry Andrew who she is in the process of grooming to run for president of the United States.

 Melanie visits Jake who has repeatedly denied and refused to sign the divorce papers since she left for New York.

After he orders her out of his house, she empties his checking account she hopes that will cause him to end the marriage.

 Jake is very angry he meets his friends at the local bar without signing the papers, Melanie follows him and she ends up having too much to drink, she insults her old school mates, and she outs one of her friends she has for a long time named Bobby Ray. 

Jake scolds her and he takes her home, preventing her from driving since she had a few drinks, the next morning Melanie wakes up to find the divorce papers signed. 

Melanie goes to the Carmicheal Plantation and apologizes to Bobby Ray, whose family lives there, she is cornered by Kate’s assistant sent to gather information on Melanie’s background and she is posing as a reporter for the New York Post, Bobby Ray backs up her pre-tense that she is a relative and the family Mansion is her childhood home. 

Melanie reconciles with her friends from them she learns that after she split with Jake, he had followed her to New York to win her back he was a little intimidated by the city and her success he returned back home to make something of himself first, she and Jake have a heart to heart Melanie then realizes why he didn’t sign their divorce papers. 

Andrew arrives in Alabama to surprise Melanie, he soon finds out about her true background and she never told him she was married, he angrily leaves,  he comes back later telling her he still wants to marry her and the wedding is immediately set in motion,

Melanie’s friends arrive from New York for the event, they visit a nearby restaurant/ resort with a glassblowing gallery, they admire the glass sculptures they are similar to the ones they have seen in New York. Melanie realizes Jake is the Artist and that he owns the resort. 

I decided to write about this movie because it is a wonderful movie and very Heart -warming and a wonderful story, and it also shows how absence makes the heart grow fonder, and how someone always holds a special place in their heart for you and how they love you still even after you have been gone for awhile.

 And how your home is always a part of you, like even when you leave your home and go to another state or a different house or something your original home and state is always a part of you, the message of the movie is you can take the girl out of the south, you can’t take the south out of the girl. 

 Like for example Dayspring Ministries is My Church Home,  I have gone there since I was a little girl, I know a lot of people there and have I have a wonderful church family, later my family decided to look at a couple of other churches and attend there we became members of a couple other churches and had a nice time, later we decided to come back to Dayspring because that is our home church ⛪️. And we love Dayspring so we are at our Home Church and having a wonderful time. 

I have had a lot of wonderful and amazing experiences since I have been back there, God has really blessed me, I also wanted to write this because I wanted to add this to my Birthday 🥳 Countdown I love my Birthday, I always celebrate my birthday and myself big, life is short and I want to make sure while I am still here and while God is keeping me here , I want to enjoy every birthday and age  that I am blessed to have. 

I have enjoyed all the fun and amazing things 26 has brought me I’ll always treasure it, I am looking forward to what 27 has , and what fun experiences and adventures are coming with it. 

Reese Witherspoon does an outstanding job in this movie, she really brings the character to life and you feel every emotion that she feels when you are watching the movie. 

She really gets into the role of Melanie. You should also see her in Sing 🎤 she does an incredible job in that movie too, I especially like her in Sing 2. She is one of my favorite actresses. I recommend this movie to anyone who wants to have a good laugh 😂.