Sweet Home Alabama What Happened to Melanie's Baby

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• A young woman who has reinvented herself equally a New York Urban center socialite must render domicile to Alabama to obtain a divorce from her hubby afterwards seven years of separation.

• Melanie Carmichael, an upward and ascent manner designer in New York, has gotten almost everything she wished for since she was piddling. She has a great career and the JFK-like fiancée of New York Urban center. Just when he proposes to her, she doesn't forget well-nigh her family back down Due south. More chiefly, her husband back there, who refuses to divorce her ever since she sent divorce papers vii years ago. To set matters directly, she decides to go to the due south quick and make him sign the papers. When things don't turn out the manner 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.

• Melanie Carmichael is a successful up and coming Manhattan style designer, seen as the one to sentinel in the industry. She grew upwards in a privileged surroundings on Carmichael Plantation in Pigeon Creek, Alabama, which is at least what she wants her social circle to believe, that social circle including her piece of work associates, and her fiancé, Andrew Hennings, a politician and son of the image conscious Mayor of New York City, Kate Hennings. The Hennings' foresee the White House in Andrew's future. The truth about Melanie's upbringing is that she grew upwards poor Melanie Smooter in Pigeon Creek. Her mother, Pearl Smooter, encouraged Melanie to go out of Pigeon Creek at any cost to have a better life for herself. Melanie initially ignored that advice and married her babyhood sweetheart, Jake Perry, fresh out of high school. They got married solely because she was pregnant, she ultimately miscarrying. Since she left Pigeon Creek and Jake seven years agone, Melanie has tried to go a divorce from Jake, signing divorce papers which he has refused to exercise. As such, she heads dorsum to Pigeon Creek for the commencement fourth dimension in seven years to finalize the divorce earlier she can marry Andrew, and before the Hennings discover not only her true background but that she is already married. Jake, a line-fishing guide, nevertheless lives in the same small, rural business firm where he and Melanie lived. He still refuses to sign the divorce papers, seemingly just to make life difficult for her. So, it's not an in and out trip as Melanie had hoped. As Melanie and Jake try to one-up the other in their matrimony battle, Melanie reconnects with many of her childhood friends and acquaintances, all who take their ain opinion of Melanie based on her leaving Pigeon Creek. The longer she stays, the greater the gamble the world, including the Hennings, will discover the truth. What may too threaten Melanie's life with Andrew is if Melanie discovers the real reason why Jake won't sign the papers, and what he has been doing the past seven years without her.

• Sophisticated Melanie Carmichael, a rising New York clothing designer suddenly finds herself engaged to the metropolis's about eligible bachelor. But this is no fairy tale romance for Melanie. She has skeletons in her fashion-filled closet that include Jake - the backwoods husband she married in high school who refuses to divorce her. Determined to end their marriage and sever all ties with her past once and for all, Melanie returns to Alabama. But home starts to tug at her heartstrings, and what she thought she wanted may not be what she wants at all.

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• The story is a honey triangle involving two childhood Alabama sweethearts who married but became estranged, Jake Perry and Melanie Smooter (Lucas and Witherspoon), and Melanie's beau of 8 months, Andrew Hennings (Dempsey).

  The film starts at a beach in Alabama during a thunderstorm with 2 children chasing each other (10 yr one-time Melanie and Jake) who kiss just get struck by lightning. Then it goes to nowadays twenty-four hours with Melanie at present a successful manner designer in New York City. When she becomes engaged to Andrew, the son of the mayor of New York City, Melanie announces that she has to go back home alone to Alabama to tell her parents in person. Her private reason is to demand a divorce from Jake. She has non told Andrew that she is still married.

  Jake refuses to divorce her until one dark she gets drunk and explains to everyone in the bar that the reason she married Jake was considering she was pregnant, and she later had a miscarriage. Jake becomes aroused with her and takes her home. When she wakes up the next forenoon, the divorce papers are laying on her bed signed by Jake.

  Melanie learns that Jake had once gone to New York City to effort to find her, because he still loved her. That night, she goes to the cemetery to tell her erstwhile coon dog Behave good bye. Jake shows up and explains how he told the dog that her disappearance was his fault and they stop up talking about why the marriage did not work, the babe they lost, and why she left. Jake gives a blessing for Melanie to have a proficient life with Andrew, merely Melanie says she cannot exercise it and kisses Jake. Jake pushes her away, withal, and tells her to go home.

  The side by side day, Andrew arrives in boondocks. Jake meets him and discovers that he is Melanie's fiancée. Jake, identifying himself equally Melanie'southward cousin, brings Andrew to Melanie. Andrew finds out that Melanie is yet married to Jake and runs off angrily.

  Melanie returns to her parents' house where her begetter walks in with Andrew. Andrew tells her how sorry he is and how he notwithstanding wants to marry her. They decide to accept the nuptials in Alabama and Andrew's mother comes down from New York. On her wedding day, as she is walking downwardly the aisle, her lawyer shows up and explains that Jake has signed the divorce papers, merely she has not. Melanie decides to not sign the papers, and that she does non want to ally Andrew, because she all the same loves Jake, which Andrew understands. She runs away from her wedding to go find Jake, who is on the same beach where, years ago, ten-year-onetime Jake had told her that he wanted to ally her "so I tin can kiss you anytime I want."

  Melanie tells him that she did not marry Andrew because she wanted to be with him so that she could kiss him whenever she wanted too. Equally Jake and Melanie kiss, Wade, the boondocks sheriff, interrupts them past taking them dorsum Jake's mother's bar, where all of their friends and family are waiting.

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