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The Next Best Thing
Comedy, Drama, Romance
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who appreciate emotionally messy relationship dramas about chosen family, competing ideas of love, and the difficult costs of growing apart.
- Tone
- bittersweet, warm, melancholic
- Payoff
- catharsis, heartbreak
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- friendship, unconventional family, parenthood, custody conflict, romantic change
- Setting
- contemporary, affluent urban Los Angeles and domestic family spaces