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    The Next Best Thing 2000 POSTER

    The Next Best Thing

    2000

    English

    4.7

    ♡ 9

    19%

    35%

    Action

    best friend

    Comedy

    custody battle

    Drama

    flush

    parent child relationship

    Romance

    single

    yoga

    John Schlesinger John Schlesinger Director John Carroll Lynch John Carroll Lynch as Abbie's Lawyer Benjamin Bratt Benjamin Bratt as Ben Cooper Mark Valley Mark Valley as Cardiologist Jack Betts Jack Betts as Vernon
    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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