The Next Best Thing
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The Next Best Thing is a 2000 comedy-drama film starring Rupert Everett, Madonna, and Benjamin Bratt.
Plot
The film is about two best friends—one a straight woman, Abbie (Madonna), the other a gay man, Robert (Everett)—who decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a straight man (Bratt) and wants to move away with him and Robert's little boy, Sam, and a nasty, full-of-surprises custody battle ensues.Reception
The film was a critical and commercial flop. Madonna won a Razzie award for worst actress, and the film was nomimated for other Razzies including Worst Director, Worst Picture and Worst Screenplay. Critic Roger Ebert game the film 1 Star, stating: "The Next Best Thing is a garage sale of gay issues, harnessed to a plot as exhausted as a junkman's horse." [1]
Soundtrack
- "Boom Boom Ba" — Metisse
- "Bongo Bang" — Manu Chao
- "Don't Make Me Love You ('Til I'm Ready)" — Christina Aguilera
- "American Pie" — Madonna
- "This Life" — Mandalay
- "If Everybody Looked The Same" — Groove Armada
- "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?" — Moby
- "I'm Not In Love" — Olive
- "Stars All Seem To Weep" — Beth Orton
- "Time Stood Still" — Madonna
- "Swayambhu" — Solar Twins
- "Forever And Always" — Gabriel Yared
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