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5. A River Doesn't Run Through It

A randy high-schooler asks Maggie to be homecoming queen; a by-the-book IRS agent scours Ruth-Anne's accounts; and Maurice wheels and deals in real estate with a Native American.

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Maggie agrees to be the high school's Homecoming Queen because the entire senior class consists of three boys, among them Kevin Wilkins ( Jack Black ). She frets that Kevin is developing a crush on her. Maurice, the richest man in the interior, negotiates the purchase of some land from Lester Haines, the first Native American to make the list of the top five wealthiest. Ruth-Anne is audited by an IRS agent having marital troubles.

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