The Next Best Thing

Name: The Next Best Thing
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Released: March 3, 2000
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 25
Cast: Madonna, Rupert Everett

2000

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THE NEXT BEST THING

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Paramount Pictures | Release Date: March 3, 2000

Starring: Madonna, Rupert Everett

Summary: A story about best friends, one a single straight woman (Madonna) the other a gay man (Everett). One night they get drunk...she gets pregnant...and the two decide to form a family despite their sexual preferences.

Director: John Schlesinger

Genre(s): Comedy, Romance

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 108 min

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Mr. Showbiz - F. X. Feeney

The two leads have a wonderful chemistry together. Read full review

USA Today - Susan Wloszczyna

Funny how Madonna borrows Everett, Julia Roberts' gay pal from "My Best Friend's Wedding," and Bratt, Roberts' real-life beau, to be her co-stars. If only she could borrow her talent. Read full review

Rolling Stone - Peter Travers

Essentially an old-fashioned weepie gussied up for Y2K.

San Francisco Chronicle - Edward Guthmann

That's a few too many agendas for one film. Read full review

Christian Science Monitor - David Sterritt

The movie has a well-meaning message about love and loyalty being the bedrock of real family values, but its good intentions sag as the story trades its air of mischievous comedy for trite sentimentality, arbitrary plot twists, and enough maudlin melodramatics to sustain a tabloid TV series. Read full review

Los Angeles Times - Kenneth Turan

A misguided romantic serio-comedy aimed at women and gay men that ends up caricaturing both. Read full review

Film.com - Robert Horton

A dismal film, a flop as both 21st-century romantic comedy and gay "Kramer vs. Kramer." Read full review

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mrjamesford

Jan 13, 2014

A light-hearted, witty film that plays with tricky themes of friendship and fatherhood. Realistic and clever acting gives life to issues that have since become central to today's world. Fortunately, institutions have eased off homosexuals of late, this film justifies those changes.

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