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- On Metacritic, the film has rating of 25 out of 100 based on 31 reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".
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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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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: 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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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- John Schlesinger
- 2000-03-03
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THE NEXT BEST THING is probably one of the worst films I've rented this year. It is painfully bad. Not only because Madonna can't act, but the direction (by John Schlesinger) is slow, boring and pretentious.
THE NEXT BEST THING establishes the close friendship between straight Abby and gay Robert (Rupert Everett). They mourn a friend lost to AIDS together. They commiserate when she's dumped by a cad. In drunken grief, they have sex (not shown) for the first and only time.
- John Schlesinger
- Barbara Shulgasser-Parker
- Rupert Everett
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.
- (94)
- Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ+
- PG-13
The film received a 19% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 93 reviews, with an average rating of 3.7/10. The website's critical consensus states: "Story elements clash and acting falls short." On Metacritic, the film has rating of 25/100 based on 31 reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".
