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Sweet Home Alabama
2002
· Movie
· 108 min
D
MEANRANK
59/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4169
- IMDb #4119
- Google retired #2652
- Rotten Tomatoes #3207
- Metacritic #3858
- Letterboxd #4483
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4331
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1814
- Metacritic Critics #3849
- Metacritic Audience #3607
- Criticker #3505
- Douban #1763
- Kinopoisk #2794
- AlloCiné #4717
- Trakt #3202
Every rating
29–80
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 29, highest is Google on 80. Critics average 42, everyone else 62.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A successful New York fashion designer is engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. She must return to her small Alabama hometown to finalize a divorce from her husband, who has never signed the papers. Her return forces her to confront her past and decide between her sophisticated new life and the roots she tried to leave behind.
Details
- Director
- Andy Tennant
- Writers
- C. Jay Cox, Douglas J. Eboch
- Released
- 26 September 2002
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $30.0M
- Box office
- $180.6M
- Awards
- 3 wins, 5 nominations
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Awards & nominations
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| BMI Film Music Award 2002 | BMI Film Music Award | George Fenton | Winner |
| Best Contemporary Hair Styling — Feature 2002 | Best Contemporary Hair Styling — Feature | Anne Morgan | Nominee |
| Best Female Performance 2002 | Best Female Performance | Reese Witherspoon | Nominee |
| Choice Movie Actress – Comedy 2002 | Choice Movie Actress – Comedy | Reese Witherspoon | Nominee |
| Choice Movie Liplock 2002 | Choice Movie Liplock | Reese Witherspoon & Josh Lucas | Winner |
| Choice Movie Villain 2002 | Choice Movie Villain | Candice Bergen | Nominee |
| Choice Movie – Comedy 2002 | Choice Movie – Comedy | Sweet Home Alabama | Winner |
| Outstanding Film — Wide Release 2002 | Outstanding Film — Wide Release | Sweet Home Alabama | Nominee |
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BMI Film Music Award
1 nomination, 1 won
| BMI Film Music Award | George Fenton | Winner |
Choice Movie Liplock
1 nomination, 1 won
| Choice Movie Liplock | Reese Witherspoon & Josh Lucas | Winner |
Choice Movie – Comedy
1 nomination, 1 won
| Choice Movie – Comedy | Sweet Home Alabama | Winner |
Best Contemporary Hair Styling — Feature
1 nomination
| Best Contemporary Hair Styling — Feature | Anne Morgan | Nominee |
Best Female Performance
1 nomination
| Best Female Performance | Reese Witherspoon | Nominee |
Choice Movie Actress – Comedy
1 nomination
| Choice Movie Actress – Comedy | Reese Witherspoon | Nominee |
Choice Movie Villain
1 nomination
| Choice Movie Villain | Candice Bergen | Nominee |
Outstanding Film — Wide Release
1 nomination
| Outstanding Film — Wide Release | Sweet Home Alabama | Nominee |