Year			2002
Genre			Comedy, romance
Rating			PG
Parents			Offensive language
Length			1:49
Director			Andy Tennant
Writer			Douglas J. Eboch C. Jay Cox
Company			Buena Vista Pictures
Starring			Reese Witherspoon Patrick Dempsey Dakota Fanning Candice Bergen Ethan Embry Josh Lucas Show more... Reese Witherspoon Patrick Dempsey Dakota Fanning Candice Bergen Ethan Embry Josh Lucas Melanie Lynskey Brandon Carroll Mark Matkevich Rhona Mitra Mary Kay Place Jean Smart Katharine Towne Fred Ward Sean Treadaway

A New York fashion designer Melanie Carmichael (Reese Witherspoon) suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor (Patrick Dempsey). But Melanie's past holds many secrets, including Jake (Josh Lucas), the redneck husband she married in high school, who refuses to divorce her. Bound and determined to end their contentious relationship once and for all, Melanie sneaks back home to Alabama to confront her past, only to discover that you can take the girl out of the South, but you can never take the South out of the girl.