The Next Best Thing

2000, Movie, PG-13, 107 mins

The Next Best Thing: Review

Cross an episode of Friends with an issue-of-the-week movie about gay parenthood and you have this glossy vanity project, whose principal purpose seems to be recording for posterity Madonna's current interests, including yoga, affecting an English accent, bindi, babies, gay men in general and Rupert Everett in particular — the only thing missing is Kaballah. L.A. woman Abbie (Madonna) is a single yoga instructor surrounded by glowing young mothers accessorized with ador... read more leave a comment