Sweet Home Alabama was released in September 2002 and took its title from the Lynyrd Skynyrd song of the same name Shafiq Najib is a former writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He left PEOPLE in 2023. Reese ...

Sweet Home Alabama was released in September 2002 and took its title from the Lynyrd Skynyrd song of the same name. The film follows the story of Witherspoon's character Melanie Smooter, a big ...

Melanie returns home to Alabama in an attempt to finally get Jake to sign their divorce papers, ... Dempsey, Witherspoon and Lucas in a handout photo from "Sweet Home Alabama" in 2002.