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The Next Best Thing

The Next Best Thing

John Schlesinger

2000

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Romance
5.2

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 with her and Robert's little boy Sam, and a nasty custody battle ensues.

Cast & crew

  • John SchlesingerDirector
  • MadonnaAbbie Reynolds
  • Rupert EverettRobert Whittaker
  • Benjamin BrattBen Cooper
  • Malcolm StumpfSam
  • Josef SommerRichard Whittaker
  • Suzanne KrullAnnabel
  • Linda LarkinKelly
  • Illeana DouglasElizabeth Ryder

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