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The Next Best Thing 2000

Mar 3, 2000 • PG-13

Summary

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.

Release: Mar 3, 2000

Index date: 2026-03-24 07:25 UTC

Genres:

Comedy Drama Romance

Director:

John Schlesinger

Top cast:

Madonna Rupert Everett Benjamin Bratt Malcolm Stumpf Josef Sommer

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