- Sweet Home Alabama: Directed by Andy Tennant. With Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas, Patrick Dempsey, Candice Bergen. A young woman who's reinvented herself as a New York City socialite must return home to Alabama to obtain a divorce from her husband, after seven years of separation.
- Ending / spoiler for Sweet Home Alabama (2002), plus mistakes, quotes, trivia and more.
'Sweet Home Alabama' is a song by Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd that first appeared in 1974 on their second album, Second Helping. The song was written in response to Neil Young's 'Southern Man' that was released in 1970 because it took the entire South to task for the bloody history of slavery and its aftermath.
The mildly entertaining romantic comedy Sweet Home Alabama features an equally take-it-or-leave-it soundtrack that mixes country, rock, and pop and excerpts of George Fenton's score. Despite the cognitive dissonance that Jewel's glossy cover of Skynryd's title track causes, it's actually not a bad reworking of the Southern rock classic into an adult alternative single. Most of the album features winsome, perky, or feisty music by female artists, such SHeDAISY's 'Mine All Mine' and Avril Lavigne's 'Falling Down,' who sound so similar to each other that it's hard to believe one song is considered contemporary country and the other alternative-leaning teen pop. In fact, aside from Dolly Parton's 'Marry Me,' the most country-sounding tracks on the album are Sheryl Crow's 'Long Gone Lonesome Blues' and Uncle Kracker's 'To Think I Used to Love You (DJ Homicide Remix).' A flat version of 'Keep Your Hands to Yourself' by the Calling and the Freestylers' out-of-place big-beat number 'Weekend Song' are a couple of the misguided attempts at making the track listing diverse, but the album just ends up unfocused. Of course, Sweet Home Alabama will please anyone who liked the music in the movie, but the soundtrack really isn't successful on any other terms.
Sample | Title/Composer | Performer | Time | Stream |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jewel | 03:43 | ||
2 | SHeDAISY | 03:55 | ||
3 | Avril Lavigne | 03:54 | ||
4 | Ryan Adams | 02:36 | ||
5 | Uncle Kracker | 03:26 | ||
6 | The Calling | 03:06 | ||
7 | Charlotte Martin | 04:33 | ||
8 | Sheryl Crow | 02:55 | ||
9 | Jason Chain | 03:44 | ||
10 | Shannon McNally | 04:44 | ||
11 | Dolly Parton | 03:15 | ||
12 | Freestylers | 03:58 | ||
13 | George Fenton | 05:02 |
The mildly entertaining romantic comedy Sweet Home Alabama features an equally take-it-or-leave-it soundtrack that mixes country, rock, and pop and excerpts of George Fenton's score. Despite the cognitive dissonance that Jewel's glossy cover of Skynryd's title track causes, it's actually not a bad reworking of the Southern rock classic into an adult alternative single. Most of the album features winsome, perky, or feisty music by female artists, such SHeDAISY's 'Mine All Mine' and Avril Lavigne's 'Falling Down,' who sound so similar to each other that it's hard to believe one song is considered contemporary country and the other alternative-leaning teen pop. In fact, aside from Dolly Parton's 'Marry Me,' the most country-sounding tracks on the album are Sheryl Crow's 'Long Gone Lonesome Blues' and Uncle Kracker's 'To Think I Used to Love You (DJ Homicide Remix).' A flat version of 'Keep Your Hands to Yourself' by the Calling and the Freestylers' out-of-place big-beat number 'Weekend Song' are a couple of the misguided attempts at making the track listing diverse, but the album just ends up unfocused. Of course, Sweet Home Alabama will please anyone who liked the music in the movie, but the soundtrack really isn't successful on any other terms.
Sweet Home Alabama Movie 2
Sample | Title/Composer | Performer | Time | Stream |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jewel | 03:43 | ||
2 | SHeDAISY | 03:55 | ||
3 | Avril Lavigne | 03:54 | ||
4 | Ryan Adams | 02:36 | ||
5 | Uncle Kracker | 03:26 | ||
6 | The Calling | 03:06 | ||
7 | Charlotte Martin | 04:33 | ||
8 | Sheryl Crow | 02:55 | ||
9 | Jason Chain | 03:44 | ||
10 | Shannon McNally | 04:44 | ||
11 | Dolly Parton | 03:15 | ||
12 | Freestylers | 03:58 | ||
13 | George Fenton | 05:02 |