Does he get the girl?

Rating: Null/10 (4 January 2001)

I don't know if he gets the girl or not at the end, but contrary to someone else's earlier posting, Hanks most certainly at least pursues the opportunity with Lari White character at the end. The earlier poster wrote:
"He was at the last looking down a different road, the one toward California. " SPOILER ALERT That is incorrect. Hanks stepped out from his jeep into the middle of the intersection. He looked forward, then to the left and right, and finally turned back around and faced up in the direction of his jeep which is the direction toward the woman's ranch. His hint of a smile combined with other factors mentioned by other commenters clearly implies that Hanks goes back to pursue this new opportunity. When you couple that with the last words of the previous scene where Hanks talks about how his will to live changed with the port a potty shell which "washed up on the beach" and that life is about seeing what washes up next it becomes clear to me that Lari White becomes Hanks's next opportunity which "washes up on the beach."
As far as I'm concerned, this is a great ending. I can't stand Helen Hunt and the only reason I was able to go see this otherwise outstanding film was the foreknowledge that Hunt occupies very few minutes on the screen.