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   • 4.7/10 4.7/10 IMDb
   • 19% 19% Rotten Tomatoes

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1. • • “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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   Is the next best thing a good movie?

   • An extremely fun and bittersweet story of friendship, love, desperation, parenthood, and ultimately making the right decision. This is another example of a great movie being squashed by "critics" and their shares love of hating Madonna. Do yourself a favor and watch The Next Best Thing. You'll be glad you did Page 1 of 4, 7 total items.

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   Was 'the next best thing' a bad movie?

   • CNN film critic, Paul Clinton, named The Next Best Thing one of the Top 10 worst movies of 2000. The soundtrack album was released by Maverick Records on February 22, 2000.

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   Is the next best thing a PG-13 movie?

   • Rated PG-13 For Mature Thematic Elements, Sexual Content, Partial Nudity and Language "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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   What is the next best thing about?

   • A reference is made to a man serving time for drug possession. Parents need to know that The Next Best Thing is a 2000 drama that asks how we as a society define "family" in an age when the once completely shunned LGBTQ community is gaining rights and acceptance. A straight woman in her 40s wants a child.

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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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   • Director: John Schlesinger

   • Content Rating: PG-13
   • Actors: Rupert Everett

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   Drama about untraditional parenting has sex, mature themes. Read Common Sense Media's The Next Best Thing review, age rating, and parents guide.

   • 3/5
   • Director: John Schlesinger

   • Author: Barbara Shulgasser-Parker
   • Actors: Rupert Everett

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   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.

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   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...

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   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...

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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.