The Next Best Thing
“Best friends make the best mistakes”
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.
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Studio
Paramount Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How The Next Best Thing performed
Budget
$25.0M
Worldwide Gross
$24.4M
Gross Profit
−$637,228
Return
1.0× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$4M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
Cast
Abbie Reynolds
Madonna
Abbie Reynolds
Robert Whittaker
Rupert Everett
Robert Whittaker
Ben Cooper
Benjamin Bratt
Ben Cooper
Sam
Malcolm Stumpf
Sam
Richard Whittaker
Josef Sommer
Richard Whittaker
Annabel
Suzanne Krull
Annabel
Kelly
Linda Larkin
Kelly
Elizabeth Ryder
Illeana Douglas
Elizabeth Ryder
Kevin Lasater
Michael Vartan
Kevin Lasater
Helen Whittaker
Lynn Redgrave
Helen Whittaker
David
Neil Patrick Harris
David
Cardiologist
Mark Valley
Cardiologist
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