The Next Best Thing(Movie, 2000)

Name: The Next Best Thing
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
Released: 2000
Duration: T01:48:00
Rating: 2.6

PG-13

| 1h 48min | Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

Rating: 2.6/5 (with 83 votes)

The Next Best Thing is a 2000 American comedy-drama film directed by John Schlesinger (his final feature film before his death in 2003) about two best friends who have a child together and a custody battle years after. Starring Madonna, Rupert Everett, and Benjamin Bratt, it opened to the number-two position in the North American box office and poor critical reviews. The accompanying soundtrack album was appreciated by music critics. Its lead single, "American Pie" reached the number-one in various countries and helped to introduce Don McLean's song to newer audiences. ()

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About The Next Best Thing

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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Trailer for The Next Best Thing + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

The Next Best Thing (2000)(Trailer, 2:09)

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Plays in: California

Made by: Paramount Pictures, Lakeshore Entertainment

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN), French (FR)

Translated into 18 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 03/03/2000

Cast: Madonna, Rupert Everett, Benjamin Bratt, Michael Vartan, Josef Sommer, Lynn Redgrave, Illeana Douglas, Neil Patrick Harris, John Carroll Lynch, Mark Valley, Stacy Edwards, Malcolm Stumpf, Jay Karnes, George Axelrod, Jack Betts

Director: John Schlesinger

Producer: Tom Rosenberg, Leslie Dixon, Gary Lucchesi

Screenwriter: Tom Ropelewski

Film Editor: Peter Honess

Director of Photography: Elliot Davis

Composer: Gabriel Yared

Costume designer: Ruth Myers

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"借借你的爱"

"好事成双"

"近乎完美"

"Det näst bästa"

Keywords: flush, los angeles, california, parent child relationship, single, single father, yoga, co-parenting, best friend, custody battle

Budget: 25,000,000 USD

Revenue: 24,362,772 USD (= 97%)

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