Sweet Home Alabama was released in September 2002 and took its title from the Lynyrd Skynyrd song of the same name Shafiq Najib is a former writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He left PEOPLE in 2023. Reese ...

“Sweet Home Alabama” turns 20 this year. And no, we don’t mean the Lynyrd Skynyrd classic, although it does play pivotal role in the Reese Witherspoon rom-com that opened in the fall of 2002. The ...

Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas and Patrick Dempsey have taken on many iconic roles over the past two decades — but their Sweet Home Alabama characters remain some of their most memorable. Following its ...

“Sweet Home Alabama” is a Southern rock classic, and rightly so. Alabama people aren’t surprised to hear Lynyrd Skynyrd’s familiar anthem playing in bars, at football games, in supermarkets, in ...