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The Next Best Thing

The Next Best Thing

2000•108 min.•

United States of America

★5.3(194)

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.
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Romance

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