Sweet Home Alabama

Corrected entry: After Melanie goes to Alabama and uses her key to get into Jake's house, Wayne comes to arrest her and they start naming off crimes she has done. Jake talks about the stockyard and Melanie says "Like I could tip a cow by myself!" It is in fact impossible to tip a cow, and growing up in a small rural town, they would know that.

Correction: It's not impossible, and growing up in rural Iowa, I would know this. I can't even count the number of people I personally know who have done that. It's extremely dangerous for the cow too. It's also true that there's no way Melanie could have done it alone.

Phixius

Corrected entry: Jake and Melanie see lightning bugs when they visit the graveyard. Lightning bugs are not seen in Alabama after mid-July. At the time of the scene (mid-autumn), the year's crop of lightning bugs would have been dead for at least three months. (01:04:15)

Correction: That's not true. The month is August. Reese Witherspoon confirms this when she says "Christmas is four months away." In the South, August is still summer heat and weather. Lighting bugs would still be around.

Corrected entry: Reese's laywer keeps looking for her throughout the town using the last name Carmicheal. Wouldn't her lawyer know that her real name was actually Smooter? The divorce papers would have needed her real name in order for them to be official.

Correction: When Melanie's lawyer is looking for her using the name Carmichael, she could have told him to use the name Carmichael but signed the papers Smooter.

Corrected entry: When Melanie's father comes home after the Civil War re-enactment, he has Andrew with him and says "Look who I found walking down I-58." There is no I-58 in southern Alabama. The only interstates that are close to the beach are I-10 east-west and I-65 north-south. (01:15:35)

Correction: Melanie's father says "Look who I found walking down 958.", at least the subtitles say so. But don't ask me if there is a 958 in southern Alabama.

NancyFelix

Corrected entry: In the scene where Melanie is looking for Bobby Ray at the plantation to apologise, the Confederate gentleman blows up an anvil. It crashes through a small wooden structure near where Melanie is standing, leaving a visible hole. As Bobby Ray approaches Melanie, you can see the hole is no longer visible. Later the hole is visible again with the addition of splintered wood on the ground. (00:50:40)

Correction: The hole is in the upper part of the roof which is cut off in the shot when Bobby Ray approaches Melanie.

NancyFelix

No, the damage is close to the top but also goes at least to the mid-point of the roof. There is also debris all the way down to the bottom of the roof.

Revealing mistake: When Reese is leaving the dog cemetery, she brushes against one of the tombstones that has a stone dog on the top of it, yet as she walks past the dog begins to rock back and forth - clearly this is not a stone headstone. Pet cemeteries, just like human, have sturdy stone headstones to withstand the elements, not plastic. (01:06:40)

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Jake: The only reason I ain't signing is cause you've turned into some hoity-toity Yankee bitch, and I'd like nothing better right now than to piss you off.

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Trivia: Erin Vanderbilt, the woman that Andrew is shown marrying at the end originally had a bigger part, but test audiences misunderstood her relationship with Andrew before breaking up with Melanie, so all of Erin's scenes were cut except for that small bit over the credits.

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Question: In the scene where Jake is driving Andrew to find Melanie, he tells the story about the cat. The cat had cancer and Melanie wanted it to die a "humane" death. What is humane about blowing it up and if it was gonna die of cancer all those years ago why is it still roaming around town?

Answer: It was only humane from Melanie's skewed, immature-at-the-time perspective, believing the cat would be killed instantly. It is still roaming town because it somehow survived the attempt to blow it up and it either never had cancer or has gone into remission.

raywest

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