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Mar 3, 2000 · The Next Best Thing: Directed by John Schlesinger. With Madonna, Rupert Everett, Benjamin Bratt, Illeana Douglas. Abbie, tired of failed relationships, has a one-night-stand with her gay friend; they agree to raise the resulting baby together.
The Next Best Thing is a 2000 American comedy-drama film directed by John Schlesinger (his final feature film before his death in 2003) about two best friends who have a child together and a custody battle years after.
Mar 3, 2000 · If you think this movie, which begins as a sexual comedy, is going to end up as a stultifying docudrama about child custody, with big courtroom scenes before the obligatory stern black female judge, you are no more than ordinarily prescient.
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Mar 3, 2000 · Theirs may not be the perfect family -- but it is the next best thing. Abbie (Madonna) and Robert (Rupert Everett) are best friends with so much in common and miserable luck in love.
- Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ+
A comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie, the other a gay man, Robert - who decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a straight man and wants to move away with her and Robert's little boy Sam, and a nasty custody battle ensues.
Mar 3, 2000 · A comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie, the other a gay man, Robert - who decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a straight man and wants to move away with her and Robert's little boy Sam, and a nasty custody battle ensues.
Mar 3, 2000 · "The Next Best Thing" to a good movie is a well-intentioned one, and at the end of the day, that less-than-compelling consolation prize is about the best thing one can hand this resoundingly...
Robbie Whitaker is a gay, aging Hollywood playboy who works as a gardener and has become Abbie's best friend. Their relationship takes a different turn when, after the funeral of a mutual friend who has died of AIDS, Abbie and Robbie get rip-roaring drunk and end up in bed together.
