I can't imagine a more shallow premise for a movie that's seemingly about racism and civil rights, as a handful of sorority sisters occasionally experience the slightest bit of social consciousness between boy problems. Many late '80s and early '90s films tried to capitalize on '50s nostalgia, but few do it as incompetently as Heart of Dixie. Ally Sheedy, Virginia Madsen, Phoebe Cates and Treat Williams are perhaps too iconic as '80s screen stars to fit into 1957 Alabama. But Martin Davidson never establishes a particularly hostile atmosphere where racism is creating a divide, making this a character drama without any interesting characters.
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