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title: "The Next Best Thing [DVD]"
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# The Next Best Thing [DVD]

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Product Description          DVD Special Features:  Dolby Digital 5.0 English  Subtitles: English, English for the hearing impaired, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish             .co.uk Review          The Next Best Thing offers the pairing of Rupert Everett and Madonna and you'd be hard-pressed to find a modern-day couple as impossibly glamorous; their casting as common folk in the gay-parenting drama is just one of the film's myriad problems (have we ever needed to see these two pushing grocery carts in a supermarket?). Best friends in sun-dappled LA (he's a landscaper, she's a yoga instructor), Abbie (Madonna) and Robert (Everett) fall into an amorous embrace on a fateful Fourth of July after a few too many martinis. Robert's gay, which complicates things; even more complicating is Abbie's confession a few weeks later that she's with child. Six years later, Robert, Abbie, and their son Sam are all living together peacefully and happily--that is, until a hunky investment banker (Benjamin Bratt) starts making eyes at Abbie, throwing their carefully constructed dynamic into disarray.  Lazily directed by Oscar-winner John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy) with an eye towards his actors' muscle tone rather than characterisations (even the kid does yoga), the faults in The Next Best Thing aren't solely on the shoulders of its miscast stars, but rather the painfully inept screenplay by Tom Ropelewski (Look Who's Talking Now). With cardboard dialogue that sounds like bad first-draft material--including wailing by Madonna about how she can't find a man (ha!) and a gym-buffed Everett complaining about gay male body image (double ha!)--the movie stumbles from domestic comedy to custody-suit tragedy when it takes a bizarre left turn in the third act. Any statements about new definitions of family are buried underneath these dubious events, which (of course) provide teary courtroom outbursts for both leads. Everett has a quick way with a one-liner, and Madonna is more relaxed than she's ever been in a film, but Schlesinger just tosses them in front of the camera with no help whatsoever; the supporting cast, including Lynn Redgrave, Neil Patrick Harris, and Illeana Douglas, is also left to flounder inexplicably. There's a thoughtful and provocative movie to be made about gay parents, but The Next Best Thing certainly isn't it. --Mark Englehart, .com

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A Great Feel Good Back too 2000’s movie one too watch on a lazy Sunday Afternoon.
  

*by A***E on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 December 2019*

This is despite having awful reviews which are only 19 percent Rating  on Rotten Tomato’s and the movie from a reviewer is not exactly a good review for a movie you might want too see it goes like ‘’Story Elements clash and Acting falls short ‘’ . I am a massive fan of Madonna and already have Desperately Seeking Susan in my Madonna DVD collection so I had too see this it is a comedy set well almost 20 Years since it came out in the millennium , it is about Women called Abbie who has had a string of not very committed men she decides I believe she is about 34 , she wants a baby but she has a great friend in Robert played Hilariously by Rupert Everett, problem him being gay  then one night after one too many drinks in a massive big wonderful mansion which is Roberts , Abby is dressed in 20’s High Society Flapper they have sex Abby wakes up the next day in Mink Fur everything is absolutely going well until she tells him she is pregnant though they will never fully have a loving relationship they decide too be reasonable for their son Sam  and live too together though sharing Separate beds Abbie meets a new very attractive lover called Ben a Investment  Banker  she goes too Beach with Ben , Robert  is well acting highly jealous and more like well a bit of a dork in my opinion there is a twist as he is not little Sam’s dad after all but he raises the child with her a custody battle starts as he is furious she kept it from him for six years, He tries too take her too court,  also it has the song cover of Don McLean’s 1971 song American Pie this movie is ok it is a well crafted story and I think the bad reviews are absolutely not justified I also think it has a good real life Comedy element dealing with a 21st century element of the social economic differences in Family life a women raising a child with her best friend who she will never love as he is homosexual, and his awareness towards that how he feels it reminds of her role in comedy I love that Movie From 1985 Desperately Seeking Susan, Madonna is a good actress and looks absolutely beautiful Abby is a Yoga Teacher by Job Madonna is a well known Yogi, and also Abbie is vegetarian though it is quite funny she bites into a beef burger with her pregnancy carvings, it has quite a usual ending . Do watch If You like Movies Like Sarah Jessica Parker I don’t know how she does it  2011 ,  Just Go with it Jennifer Anniston  and Adam Sandler 2011 , and The Wedding Planner Jennifer Lopez 2001 Knocked Up 2007 Katherine Heigl and Seth Rogan  I loved watching as a Big Madonna Fan was great too add this too my Rom Com and Madonna Movie Collection  .

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    BRILLIANT FILM
  

*by A***E on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 January 2016*

Reading some of the reviews I thought this film would be rubbish. It was great to watch with good performances from Rupert Everett and Madonna with a good and convincing performance by a young boy called Malcolm Stumpf (Star of "Wild Tigers i Have Known (a brilliant film) ). Though I could find no mention of his name on the DVD case, when he was one of the leading actors. A film I will watch again and again.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Not the best film!
  

*by S***C on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 October 2013*

It's ok if there is nothing else to do but the acting is poor and the storyline jumps 5 then 10 years, could have been so much better!

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