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- “The Next Best Thing” is a garage sale of gay issues, harnessed to a plot as exhausted as a junkman’s horse. There are times when the characters don’t know if they’re living their lives or enacting edifying little dramas for an educational film.
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Mar 3, 2000 · 4 min read. “The Next Best Thing” is a garage sale of gay issues, harnessed to a plot as exhausted as a junkman’s horse. There are times when the characters don’t know if they’re living their lives or enacting edifying little dramas for an educational film.
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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.
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- John Schlesinger
- PG-13
- Rupert Everett
Drama about untraditional parenting has sex, mature themes. Read Common Sense Media's The Next Best Thing review, age rating, and parents guide.
- John Schlesinger
- Barbara Shulgasser-Parker
- Rupert Everett
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 · By Variety Staff. “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...
The Next Best Thing Reviews. A glossy, ham-fisted, non-romance. Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 16, 2021. The two stars may be great pals in life, but there's little magic in their...
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.