the next best thing (2000)
Original title: the next best thing
97 min|
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left by her boyfriend, the forty-year-old abbie takes refuge from her best friend robert, a gay gardener on duty in a sumptuous hollywood villa. one evening, after a few cocktails and a few too many dances, the two find themselves in bed together. abbie, pregnant, decides to keep her son. robert, at sam's birth, reveals himself to be a caring father. everything's fine as long as ben enters her life, with serious marriage intentions: the rest, in court.
Festivals and awards
Direction
John Schlesinger: regista
Production and Screenplay
Tom Ropelewski: sceneggiatore
Leslie Dixon: produttore
Gary Lucchesi: produttore esecutivo
Tom Rosenberg: produttore
Ted Tannebaum: produttore esecutivo
Linne Radmin: produttore
Lewis Manilow: produttore esecutivo
Interpreters and Characters
abbie reynolds
Madonna
robert whittaker
Abbie
Sam, il bambino
ben cooper
kevin lassiter
richard whittaker
Elizabeth Ryder
David
Helen Whittaker
Sam
avvocato di abbie
Josef Sommer(età:66)
Rupert Everett(età:41)
Illeana Douglas(età:35)
John Carroll Lynch(età:37)
Lynn Redgrave(età:57)
Stacy Edwards(età:35)
Michael Vartan(età:32)
Neil Patrick Harris(età:27)
Benjamin Bratt(età:37)
Caitlin Wachs(età:11)
Madonna (cantante)(età:42)
Kimberley Davies(età:27)
Jay Karnes(età:37)
Technical staff
Gabriel Yared: musiche
Peter Honess: montatore
Elliot Davis: direttore della fotografia
Ruth Myers: costumista
Howard Cummings: scenografo
Madonna (cantante): musiche