The Next Best Thing

The Next Best Thing
  • Theatrical - Wide 2000-03-03
Box Office Gross: $24,362,772
Running Time: 108 minutes
Language: English
Production Company: Paramount Pictures, Lakeshore Entertainment
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7/10

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A comedy-drama about best friends – one a straight woman, Abbie, the other a gay man, Robert – who decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a straight man and wants to move away... See more with her and Robert’s little boy Sam, and a nasty custody battle ensues.

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Posted 26 years ago
Review Date: Director: John Schlesinger Writer: Tom Ropelewski Producers: Leslie Dixon, Linne Radmin, Tom Rosenberg Actors: Madonna as Abbie, Rupert Everett as Robert, Benjamin Bratt as Ben Plot: A single, pretty girl who can’t seem to find the “right guy”...
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The Next Best ThingThe Next Best Thing

The Next Best Thing

Posted 26 years ago
Review Date: Director: John Schlesinger Writer: Tom Ropelewski Producers: Leslie Dixon, Linne Radmin, Tom Rosenberg Actors: Madonna as Abbie, Rupert Everett as Robert, Benjamin Bratt as Ben Plot: A single, pretty girl who can’t seem to find the “right guy”...

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