The Next Best Thing

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.

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  Madonna

  Abbie Reynolds
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  Rupert Everett

  Robert Whittaker
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  Benjamin Bratt

  Ben Cooper
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  Malcolm Stumpf

  Sam
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  Josef Sommer

  Richard Whittaker
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  Suzanne Krull

  Annabel
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  Linda Larkin

  Kelly
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  Illeana Douglas

  Elizabeth Ryder
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  Michael Vartan

  Kevin Lasater
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  Lynn Redgrave

  Helen Whittaker