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"Spending time with locals and absorbing their culture and accents has been such a homey experience for me," says the Nashville-born Witherspoon (whose asking price jumped to $5 million after Legally Blonde). She plays Melanie, a fashion designer who is engaged to the suave son (Dempsey) of the mayor of New York (Bergen). When he goes to meet her family in Alabama, though, he discovers that his bride-to-be still hasn't divorced her first husband (Lucas), and Melanie, who is suddenly overcome by homesickness, discovers that she may not want to. Ultimately, says Tennant (Anna and the King), "she has to choose between a great guy and the right guy."
Southern Comfort: Says Tennant, who shot much of the film in the topographically rich state of Georgia, "I lost my father during the making of this movie, and I had [people] I didn't even know coming up to me and telling me that he was in their prayers."
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