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The Next Best Thing (2000)

Best friends make the best mistakes

3 March 2000 · 1h 48mComedyDramaRomance

★ 5.2 / 10 · 207 votes on TMDB

Directed by John Schlesinger

What it's about

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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Cast

  • Madonna

    Madonna

    Abbie Reynolds

  • Rupert Everett

    Rupert Everett

    Robert Whittaker

  • Benjamin Bratt

    Benjamin Bratt

    Ben Cooper

  • Malcolm Stumpf

    Malcolm Stumpf

    Sam

  • Josef Sommer

    Josef Sommer

    Richard Whittaker

  • Suzanne Krull

    Suzanne Krull

    Annabel

  • Linda Larkin

    Linda Larkin

    Kelly

  • Illeana Douglas

    Illeana Douglas

    Elizabeth Ryder

  • Michael Vartan

    Michael Vartan

    Kevin Lasater

  • Lynn Redgrave

    Lynn Redgrave

    Helen Whittaker

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