Film
The Next Best Thing
2000 · 1h 48m · Comedy · Drama · Romance
Best friends make the best mistakes
- IMDb
- 4.7
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 19%
- Metacritic
- 25
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Overview
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
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
Michael Vartan
Kevin Lasater
Lynn Redgrave
Helen Whittaker
Neil Patrick Harris
David
Mark Valley
Cardiologist
Stacy Edwards
Finn
John Carroll Lynch
Abbie's Lawyer
Fran Bennett
Judge Tracey Bennett
Ricki Lopez
Angel
Crew
- John SchlesingerDirector
- Tom RopelewskiScreenplay
- Leslie DixonProducer
- Linne RadminProducer
- Tom RosenbergProducer
- Gary LucchesiExecutive Producer
- Ted TannebaumExecutive Producer
- Lewis ManilowExecutive Producer
- Elliot DavisDirector of Photography
- Gabriel YaredOriginal Music Composer
Media
Details
- Release date
- March 3, 2000
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $25,000,000
- Revenue
- $24,362,772
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
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