Synopsis

The Next Best Thing (2000)

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.
John Schlesinger
Madonna, Rupert Everett, Benjamin Bratt, Malcolm Stumpf, Josef Sommer, Suzanne Krull, Linda Larkin, Illeana Douglas, Michael Vartan, Lynn Redgrave, Neil Patrick Harris, Mark Valley, Stacy Edwards, John Carroll Lynch, Fran Bennett, Ricki Lopez, Tiffany Paulsen, Jack Betts, Irene Roseen, Frank James, Caitlin Wachs, Jessica Sara, Kimberley Davies, Laurent Schwaar, Rebekah Hoyle, Greg Bronson
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