The Next Best Thing (2000)
"Best friends make the best mistakes"
Critics Score
🎬 22%
(RT: 19%, MC: 25) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Malcolm Stumpf as Sam
Suzanne Krull as Annabel
Is The Next Best Thing good?
Most people think so. 72% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 22%, but audiences disagreed.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
