Average Rating: 3.6/10
Reviews Counted: 91
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 74
Story elements clash and acting falls short.
Average Rating: 3.3/10
Critic Reviews: 27
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 24
Story elements clash and acting falls short.
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Best buddies Abbie (Madonna), a heterosexual yoga instructor, and Robert (Rupert Everett), a gay landscaper, cope with failed relationships, the approach of middle age, and the AIDS-related death of a mutual friend by sticking together as a "family of choice." Drunk one night, they have sex, and when Abbie turns up pregnant, they decide to move in together and raise the child as decidedly unconventional co-parents. Flash forward several years and Abbie begins dating Ben (Benjamin Bratt), an
Mar 3, 2000 Wide
May 2, 2005
Paramount Home Video
All Critics (107) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (74) | DVD (10)
The two leads have a wonderful chemistry together.
Madonna's charisma as a personality has never translated particularly well to the big screen.
Ultimately, the film works because Schlesinger handles the comedy-to-drama transition with skill.
Yet another film of missed opportunities in which provocative ideas are destroyed -- in this case, by either the lame writing of Thomas Ropelewski or the timid direction of John Schlesinger, or possibly both.
The moment the movie loses its lighthearted spirit is the moment it loses touch with reality.
A pleasing but mindless diversion that goes down well with buttered popcorn and a large Coke.
1980s teen-sex comedy that actually has an IQ.
The very first scene in the new Madonna movie The Next Best Thing stumbles and the movie never recovers.
This astonishingly bad tearjerker, a Fannie Hurst weepie with a gay twist, is as phony as a three-dollar bill and just about as entertaining.
Well-intentioned but heavy-handed.
Rupert and Madonna re friends who have a drunken night.
July 14, 2007
Super Reviewer
Will someone PLEASE tell Madonna to stick to the day job?? She's just embarrassing herself...and someone should tell Rupert Everett that having an english accent isn't enough to carry a film outside of the US' female demographic.
December 24, 2006
Super Reviewer
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