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Sweet Home Alabama

2002 · 108 min · Director: Andy Tennant ★ IMDb 6.2 · 137,445 ratings

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Melanie Carmichael, an up and rising fashion designer in New York, has gotten almost everything she wished for since she was little. She has a great career and the JFK-like fiancée of New York City. But when he proposes to her, she doesn't forget about her family back down South. More importantly, her husband back there, who refuses to divorce her ever since she sent divorce papers seven years ago. To set matters straight, she decides to go to the south quick and make him sign the papers. When things don't turn out the way she planned them, she realizes that what she had before in the south was far more perfect than the life she had in New York City.

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Sweet Home Alabama (2002) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Love 30%, Humor 25%, Nostalgia 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

30%Love
25%Humor
  1. Love30%
  2. Humor25%

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Why it feels this way

The strongest emotional signals are Love, Humor, Nostalgia. Genres: Comedy, Romance. AI estimate.

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Consider this title if you are looking for Love, Humor and Nostalgia. Its IMDb rating of 6.2/10 suggests a generally positive audience reception. For these leading emotions, its Feel Score is 64/100.

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  • Love
  • Humor
  • Joy

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Dominant emotion: Love

Dominant emotion: Joy

Dominant emotion: Tension

Dominant emotion: Humor

Dominant emotion: Sadness

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Humor
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Emotional journey Emotional intensity over the film’s runtime, from quieter to stronger on a fixed 0–1 scale. Hatched intervals have insufficient subtitle evidence. The table provides the values.
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Dominant emotion

Intensity dips around 3 %, then dips around 48 %, then peaks around 88 %.Ending hidden

Emotional journey
%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensityLoveHumorJoy
2.5 %≈ 3′Love47 %42 %33 %38 %
7.5 %≈ 8′Joy48 %36 %30 %34 %
12.5 %≈ 14′Tension49 %20 %30 %18 %
17.5 %≈ 19′Tension50 %11 %38 %9 %
22.5 %≈ 24′Humor48 %19 %43 %14 %
27.5 %≈ 30′Humor45 %25 %41 %18 %
32.5 %≈ 35′Humor49 %25 %44 %21 %
37.5 %≈ 41′Humor55 %21 %45 %25 %
42.5 %≈ 46′Tension50 %14 %35 %19 %
47.5 %≈ 51′Humor41 %10 %31 %13 %
52.5 %≈ 57′Humor45 %18 %34 %20 %
57.5 %≈ 62′Love57 %36 %24 %25 %
62.5 %≈ 68′Sadness63 %44 %18 %16 %
67.5 %≈ 73′Love55 %36 %23 %14 %
72.5 %≈ 78′Tension50 %30 %24 %16 %
77.5 %≈ 84′Tension46 %29 %26 %15 %
82.5 %≈ 89′Love53 %38 %29 %15 %
87.5 %≈ 95′Tension73 %54 %31 %29 %
92.5 %≈ 100′Joy73 %57 %33 %49 %
97.5 %≈ 105′Joy55 %45 %23 %48 %
Man in a hole

Rags to riches: The emotional tone rises from negative to positive.

Riches to rags: The emotional tone falls from positive to negative.

Man in a hole: The tone falls, then recovers.

Icarus: The tone rises, then falls.

Cinderella: The tone rises, falls, then rises again.

Oedipus: The tone falls, rises, then falls again.

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Cast

Reese Witherspoon

Melanie Smooter

Patrick Dempsey

Andrew Hennings

Candice Bergen

Mayor Kate Hennings

Mary Kay Place

Pearl Smooter

Fred Ward

Earl Smooter

Jean Smart

Stella Kay Perry

Ethan Embry

Bobby Ray

Courtney Gains

Sheriff Wade

Rhona Mitra

Tabatha Wadmore-Smith

NL
Nathan Lee Graham

Frederick Montana

FC
Fleet Cooper

Clinton

Kevin Sussman

Barry Lowenstein

TC
Thomas Curtis

Young Jake

Dakota Fanning

Young Melanie

MS
Mark Skinner

Bruno

Details

Directed by
Andy Tennant
Written by
Douglas J. Eboch, C. Jay Cox
Type
Movies
Released
2002
Runtime
108 min
Country
United States
Ratings
★ IMDb 6.2 · 137,445 ratings
Feels mostly
Love
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