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| Title | The next best thing | Year | 2000 | ||||||||||||
| Director | John Schlesinger | Writer | Tom Ropelewski | ||||||||||||
| Country | USA | Language | English | ||||||||||||
| Cast | Madonna, Rupert Everett, Benjamin Bratt, Illeana Douglas, Michael Vartan, Josef Sommer, Malcolm Stumpf, Lynn Redgrave | ||||||||||||||
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He was smart, handsome and single. When her biological clock was running out, he was... the next best thing.
Abbie Reynolds (Madonna) is a yoga instructer, whose boyfriend has just left her. She goes to her best friend, Robert (Rupert Everett) for a way to get over this. One night, the two become lovers. Abbie then finds out that she's pregnant, and Robert is the father. But Robert is also... gay.
Seven years later, while getting ready to do a yoga class, Abbie meets Ben, a charming guy who is very interested in Abbie. The two begin dating. Ben decides that he wants to marry Abbie and it makes Robert furious because he does not want anyone taking his place as Sam's father.
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Two best friends, A gay man and a straight woman, have a child together after one nights drunken affair. When she falls in love with another man he fights for the custody of his child. |
A wonderful movie with good acting, great quotes and a good director. Madonna and Rupert are believable as their characters. The only thing that bothered me was the fact that after a couple of drinks the gay man had no trouble having sex with a woman. Not really believable. But then again without that there wouldn't be a story to tell. |
Abbie: I have something to tell you.
[Talking about Abbie and Robert's baby]
Ben: Are you gay, or are you just acting gay?
Robert: What? Eight martinis and you're stuffed?
Sam: Daddy, are you a 'faggot'?
Robert's Mother: Do you remember that gloomy old grandpa that I told you about. The one who only comes out at night?
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