I watched this at Lindsey's house on network TV and it was your basic romantic comedy. To say it was awful would be a stretch, but the term "not good" is fine.Melanie Carmichael (Reese Witherspoon) has just gotten engaged to the New York City mayor's son (Patrick Dempsey). Problem is, she is still married to her high school sweetheart, Jake (Josh Lucas), in Alabama. So, in order to get her marriage planning going, she needs to travel down to Alabama and get the divorce from Jake finalized. When she gets back to Alabama, however, she finds her roots are harder to get rid of than she would like. What is a girl to do?
Witherspoon was not the problem in this movie, her character was. In watching this closely, there was really no likable characteristics to Melanie. She's a constant user who can't help it. Of course, throughout the movie, that changes. The parts that made this watchable was the supporting cast. Fred Ward, Mary Kay Place, Candice Bergen and Ethan Embry all kept my interest in their respective story predicaments. I'm not going to recommend this, but I'm not going to stop you from seeing it, if your mind so chooses.
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