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The Next Best Thing
2000
· Movie
· 108 min
F
MEANRANK
46/100
Every rating
19–80
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 19, highest is Metacritic users on 80. Critics average 22, everyone else 53.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →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.
Details
- Director
- John Schlesinger
- Writer
- Tom Ropelewski
- Released
- 3 March 2000
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $25.0M
- Box office
- $24.4M
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