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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Average Rating: 2.6/5
User Ratings: 15,844
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)
A dreary little journey that starts as a cutesy sitcom and nosedives into leaden soap opera.
Terminally slow-moving.
When one of an alleged romantic movie's principal actors is basically just reading lines, it doesn't do much for chemistry.
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.
Never having decided whether it wants to be comedy or a sentimental hand-wringer, it tries to be both and winds up being neither.
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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