The Next Best Thing
- Release Year
- 2000
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Drama
- Romance
- Directed By
- John Schlesinger

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.














