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"It Could Happen To You" rates a big 10 on a scale of one to ten, with ten being the best. This movie is one of the best in its genre.

If anyone wants to see a movie that will boost their spirit, this movie will do that for you.

Ms. Fonda was perfect as the sweet and innocent woman who shared the lotto winnings with Mr. Cage's cop character. I really felt as if though I was standing there witnessing everything that they were going through as if it had all really happened in real life.

That is one of the marks of a very well made movie.

I will look on this website for the writers, directors of "It Could Happen To You" and see what other movies they have created since then.

As of today the movie "Hannibal" is the number 1 movie.

That says a lot about America. Scary.

Remember just a few years ago it was "Beavis and Butthead"? And right after that it was the dark "American Beauty". Americans are a little too fascinated with their dark side. Maybe they are fed up with their lives. The humdrum.

Well movies like "It Could Happen To You" are the remedy to getting America out of its dark movie rut.

I never did like the way "Northern Exposure" ended. Why are creator's of successful television shows and movies afraid of happy and believable endings?

The end of NE with Rob Morrow had him walking through some wilderness in Alaska and stepping into Manhattan! What was that all about? A little over done on the fantasy part. To top all, he leaves Maggie behind.

Here is the way I think "Northern Exposure" should have ended. First off, Dr. Joel Fleischman fulfills his contractual obligations to Maurice and the little town of Cicely and establishes a very successful practice in Manhattan.

Of course the man marries Maggie O'Connell and they live in a nice apartment next to Central Park and have two kids. One a boy that looks a lot like Joel. The other a girl who obviously looks like Maggie. The rest of Maggie's dreams and aspirations are fulfilled marrying Joel and living the good life in the city of New York.

The town of Cicely gets a happy and dedicated doctor couple and staff who run the new clinic that was built and named after Maurice Minnifield with his gracious endowment.

Sadly, Maurice finds he has terminal cancer and the man does a complete about face with his greed and riches. So, Maurice becomes the complete opposite of the character he was on the show. He realizes he has led a successful and fulfilled life and wants to die happy and leave those who were always close to him happy. Maurice leaves his house to his close friend Holling Vincoeur and Shelly Tambo Vincoeur and their little daughter who stay in Cicely keeping the Brick in business. The Brick is now a major tourist attraction for the town.

Maurice also leaves a very generous amount for the movie making aspirations of Ed Chigliak who attends one of the best film schools on the West Coast. Ed later becomes the creator of some of the country's most successful films that have an environmental and Native American theme throughout. Films that are both suspenseful and thought provoking.

Maurice leaves another big chunk of his money to help out Disabled American Veterans. Another big part goes to Native American social concerns in Alaska and the Northwest that is overlooked by a Tribal council that is headed by Marilyn Whirlwind.

Chris Stevens with his insightful commentary and through Maurice's connections gets a job at a radio station in Seattle or San Francisco or in New England. His radio show, liked by many through out the country for raising the environmental and social consciousness of North America, becomes nationally syndicated on NPR.

Adam and Eve with their one healthy kid, are living off the land in Alaska as Adam is the head of a popular Green movement in the state. He works out of his office in his log cabin home. They do a lot of traveling through out the world raising environmental concerns and issues.

Ruth-Anne stays as the proud owner of her little five and dime in Cicely and lives well into her nineties with Walt.

See? That was not so difficult. It would have to be such an ending as this, so as to keep with Northern Exposure's positive sense of community. Now if only the rest of America would wake up.

Like the wimpy and nerdy "Ed" is supposed to be better?

I hope that all of the people who put "Freaks and Geeks" together are onto bigger and better things.

That this show was able to reach new levels of believability and humor in this type of TV show, well that says a lot about the makers of "Freaks and Geeks".

High school was exactly like this for me and like the characters in the movie "Dazed and Confused". Very believable.

I even had some guy who'd bully me around like the "Alan" character in F&G that picked on Weir and his geeky friends. We later became friends, but sadly the man would later die an alcoholic in his early thirties.

Just saw the 7 episode "Freaks and Geeks" marathon that was on this weekend. I had not seen the "Make-Out Party" episode. That was one well written and funny show.

I remember feeling a little awkward, but still having a girlfriend (my steady, at least for awhile) who looked like "Cindy Saunders" in high school, she wasn't a cheerleader, but she was still popular.

This is an excellent TV show. Funny and great to watch with its perfect mix of drama and humor. I am glad "Freaks and Geeks" is in syndication.