Reese Witherspoon has always been a dynamic actress but Sweet Home Alabama allows her to explore a more mature role. Having previous played an intelligent, amusing blond (not to say they usually aren’t) in Legally Blond and a much more youthful Annette in Cruel Intentions; Reese branches out into a mature, complex character in her latest endevour.

Playing a woman who returns to her hometown to tie up some loose strings so that she may marry her “true love” she finds out that she has transformed herself into an urban yuppie and has lost touch with herself.

As always, the movie (as is the genre) is very predictable but amusing. The script is alive with characters, stories, and a life that comes with complex characters that you quite never fully understand.

I suggest seeing the film if you’re heading to the theatre as it is well made and well thought out.

15 out of 20.