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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.
Mar 3, 2000 · Watchlist. TRAILER. Abbie (Madonna) and Robert (Rupert Everett) are best friends with so much in common and miserable luck in love. They would make the perfect couple, but one thing prevents them...
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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.
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 · 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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Mar 3, 2000 · A story about best friends, one a single straight woman (Madonna) the other a gay man (Everett). One night they get drunk...she gets pregnant...and the two decide to form a family despite their sexual preferences.