[100 Things] My DVD Collection: Sweet Home Alabama & Just Like Heaven

 

These two movies star Reese Witherspoon, who has made so many movies that I enjoy over the years. Sweet Home Alabama is, without question, one of my all time faves, as Melanie Smooter is forced to acknowledge her humble beginnings in Pigeon Creek, Alabama, in order to get a divorce from her childhood sweetheart, Jake (Josh Lucas). She is determined to keep it a secret from her high-flying friends in the fashion industry and her new fiance (Patrick Dempsey) that she was once a country girl, but everything comes to a head when the truth gets out, AND Mel realises she never really got over her first love. Its fun and its crazy, but ultimately beautifully romantic and I love it.

There's a more serious side to Just Like Heaven. Mark Ruffalo plays a guy who moves into a new apartment, only to find the old tenant is still around in the form of a ghost! The trouble is Reese Witherspoon's character hasn't cottoned on to the fact she is from the beyond and isn't exactly in a hurry to leave. The twist when you realise that this astral projection is from a comatose woman rather than a dead one is smart, and then its a case of getting both parts of her back together. Of course, even then, its never that simple, and just when Mark realises he's in love he loses the girl. Eventually, we get the happy ending you know has to be in there somewhere, but its hankies at the ready on the jounrey to happily ever after, thats for sure!