Comedy / Drama / Romance

The Next Best Thing.

Name: The Next Best Thing
Director: John Schlesinger
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Released: 2000-03-03
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 5.2

Best friends make the best mistakes

5.2/ 1020001h 48mEN

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.

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Directed by John Schlesinger

THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE STORY

Cast.

Madonna

Abbie Reynolds

Rupert Everett

Robert Whittaker

Benjamin Bratt

Ben Cooper

Malcolm Stumpf

Sam

Josef Sommer

Richard Whittaker

Suzanne Krull

Annabel

Linda Larkin

Kelly

Illeana Douglas

Elizabeth Ryder

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