The Next Best Thing (2000)
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.
Watch nowComedy, Drama, Romance
Cast
- Madonna — Abbie Reynolds
- Rupert Everett — Robert Whittaker
- Benjamin Bratt — Ben Cooper
- Malcolm Stumpf — Sam
- Josef Sommer — Richard Whittaker
- Suzanne Krull — Annabel
- Linda Larkin — Kelly
- Illeana Douglas — Elizabeth Ryder
- Michael Vartan — Kevin Lasater
- Lynn Redgrave — Helen Whittaker
- Neil Patrick Harris — David
- Mark Valley — Cardiologist
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