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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.
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.
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Mar 3, 2000 · "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.
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.
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- Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ+
- PG-13
Nov 17, 2009 · 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...
