A comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie (Madonna), the other a gay man, Robert (Rupert Everett) - 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.

Title: Next Best Thing, The

Release Date: 2000

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Directors: Schlesinger, John

Actors:
• Madonna as Abbie Reynolds
• Everett, Rupert as Robert Whittaker
• Bratt, Benjamin as Ben Cooper
• Douglas, Illeana as Elizabeth Ryder
• Vartan, Michael as Kevin Lasater
• Sommer, Josef as Richard Whittaker
• Stumpf, Malcolm as Sam
• Redgrave, Lynn as Helen Whittaker
• Harris, Neil Patrick as David
• Valley, Mark as Cardiologist
• Krull, Suzanne as Annabel
• Edwards, Stacy as Finn
• Lynch, John Carroll as Abbie’’s Lawyer
• Bennett, Fran as Judge Tracey Bennett
• Lopez, Ricki as Angel

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