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Disenchanted with the glitzy MTV videos she's being forced to shoot in Hollywood, Lorna goes back to her parents' old cabin in East Tennessee for the holidays and spends Christmas with (among others) some orphaned children and a "mountain man." This actually proves to be good for her career, as the Appalachian setting restores her creativity and inspires her to write a number of new songs.

Sweet home alabama movie movie#

Dolly Parton starred in the 1986 TV movie A Smoky Mountain Christmas, where she was a country musician named Lorna Davis, essentially a fictionalized version of herself.

Right is her childhood sweetheart back home in Alabama.

The movie Sweet Home Alabama is about a Southern girl who thought for a moment that some New York yuppie could be her Mr.

The Northerners act more like stereotypical New Yawkers. Some of the Southerners are portrayed as rednecks and somewhat dim but the rest are presented as decent folks. While the people and town are charming enough, they have a few backwards qualities to them, such as an illiterate couple that need to have their mail read to them.

Everyone's laid back with everyone else, and ethnic prejudice is nonexistent. Cookie's Fortune: If Atlanta is "the city too busy to hate", Holly Springs is the town too lazy to hate.In The Legend of Bagger Vance, Will Smith's character gets on fine in 1930s Savannah, Georgia.Smokey and the Bandit: Coming out in 1977, it was probably the first film out of Hollywood in 20 years to show the South as a fun place.