The Next Best Thing

“Best friends make the best mistakes”

After a night of grief and too much drink, Abbie (Madonna) finds herself pregnant by her best friend Robert (Rupert Everett), who is gay. They decide to raise the child together. John Schlesinger follows the two of them through five years of shared parenting, until Abbie falls for Ben (Benjamin Bratt) and wants to take their son Sam away. Robert loves that boy, and he is not willing to give him up.