I take offense to this hatred of Hope Floats. Taken for what it is...a hopeless romantic unrealistic movie that never would consider an oscar nod.... it is what it is. Just that...a hopless romantic unrealistic movie... What exactly is wrong with a brief indulgance into romance now and again? Sometimes we all need an escape. Something to take our mind off the rain, the war, our checkbooks, our current terrible relationships, homelessness, injustice, the roundabouts, the lack of fish in capitol lake.... Maybe we just want to excape for a minute or an hour. Nobody says you have to watch the movie.... Maybe we want to watch to reset our romance clock... our mom's have told us that nothing ever turns out like it does on t.v. Maybe we can identify with the newly divorced character who is devastated by her husband's cheating, leaves him and moves back to her hometown to suffer with depression and attempt to start a new life and raise her daughter alone. No, it doesn't mean we are going to believe that the handsome handyman working on Mom's house is going to turn out to be a man (or woman) we went to high school with who is going to fall in love with us and whisk us off to his newly built house and save us from it all. And no it doesn't mean we think this movie had any social merit other than to entertain us for a brief stint... Once in awhile we like to be told a fairy tell if you will. To get lost in some romance. You should try it some time.... slip it in there amongst your 'Dogma' and your war movies, you know the ones that leave you depressed and sick to your stomach for days.... try something happy... that you can't find at the comic store. Or don't... but don't hate those of us who like a little romance now and then....it's what we watch when we are waiting for you to bring us flowers or take us to the beach or write us poetry. ;)