--- product_id: 56412643 title: "The Next Best Thing [DVD]" price: "₹ 1998" currency: INR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.in/products/56412643-the-next-best-thing-dvd store_origin: IN region: India --- # The Next Best Thing [DVD] **Price:** ₹ 1998 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Next Best Thing [DVD] - **How much does it cost?** ₹ 1998 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.in](https://www.desertcart.in/products/56412643-the-next-best-thing-dvd) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Product Description DVD Special Features: Dolby Digital 5.0 English Subtitles: English, English for the hearing impaired, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish desertcart.co.uk Review The Next Best Thing offers the pairing of Rupert Everett and Madonna and you'd be hard-pressed to find a modern-day couple as impossibly glamorous; their casting as common folk in the gay-parenting drama is just one of the film's myriad problems (have we ever needed to see these two pushing grocery carts in a supermarket?). Best friends in sun-dappled LA (he's a landscaper, she's a yoga instructor), Abbie (Madonna) and Robert (Everett) fall into an amorous embrace on a fateful Fourth of July after a few too many martinis. Robert's gay, which complicates things; even more complicating is Abbie's confession a few weeks later that she's with child. Six years later, Robert, Abbie, and their son Sam are all living together peacefully and happily--that is, until a hunky investment banker (Benjamin Bratt) starts making eyes at Abbie, throwing their carefully constructed dynamic into disarray. Lazily directed by Oscar-winner John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy) with an eye towards his actors' muscle tone rather than characterisations (even the kid does yoga), the faults in The Next Best Thing aren't solely on the shoulders of its miscast stars, but rather the painfully inept screenplay by Tom Ropelewski (Look Who's Talking Now). With cardboard dialogue that sounds like bad first-draft material--including wailing by Madonna about how she can't find a man (ha!) and a gym-buffed Everett complaining about gay male body image (double ha!)--the movie stumbles from domestic comedy to custody-suit tragedy when it takes a bizarre left turn in the third act. Any statements about new definitions of family are buried underneath these dubious events, which (of course) provide teary courtroom outbursts for both leads. Everett has a quick way with a one-liner, and Madonna is more relaxed than she's ever been in a film, but Schlesinger just tosses them in front of the camera with no help whatsoever; the supporting cast, including Lynn Redgrave, Neil Patrick Harris, and Illeana Douglas, is also left to flounder inexplicably. There's a thoughtful and provocative movie to be made about gay parents, but The Next Best Thing certainly isn't it. --Mark Englehart, desertcart.com Review: A Great Feel Good Back too 2000’s movie one too watch on a lazy Sunday Afternoon. - This is despite having awful reviews which are only 19 percent Rating on Rotten Tomato’s and the movie from a reviewer is not exactly a good review for a movie you might want too see it goes like ‘’Story Elements clash and Acting falls short ‘’ . I am a massive fan of Madonna and already have Desperately Seeking Susan in my Madonna DVD collection so I had too see this it is a comedy set well almost 20 Years since it came out in the millennium , it is about Women called Abbie who has had a string of not very committed men she decides I believe she is about 34 , she wants a baby but she has a great friend in Robert played Hilariously by Rupert Everett, problem him being gay then one night after one too many drinks in a massive big wonderful mansion which is Roberts , Abby is dressed in 20’s High Society Flapper they have sex Abby wakes up the next day in Mink Fur everything is absolutely going well until she tells him she is pregnant though they will never fully have a loving relationship they decide too be reasonable for their son Sam and live too together though sharing Separate beds Abbie meets a new very attractive lover called Ben a Investment Banker she goes too Beach with Ben , Robert is well acting highly jealous and more like well a bit of a dork in my opinion there is a twist as he is not little Sam’s dad after all but he raises the child with her a custody battle starts as he is furious she kept it from him for six years, He tries too take her too court, also it has the song cover of Don McLean’s 1971 song American Pie this movie is ok it is a well crafted story and I think the bad reviews are absolutely not justified I also think it has a good real life Comedy element dealing with a 21st century element of the social economic differences in Family life a women raising a child with her best friend who she will never love as he is homosexual, and his awareness towards that how he feels it reminds of her role in comedy I love that Movie From 1985 Desperately Seeking Susan, Madonna is a good actress and looks absolutely beautiful Abby is a Yoga Teacher by Job Madonna is a well known Yogi, and also Abbie is vegetarian though it is quite funny she bites into a beef burger with her pregnancy carvings, it has quite a usual ending . Do watch If You like Movies Like Sarah Jessica Parker I don’t know how she does it 2011 , Just Go with it Jennifer Anniston and Adam Sandler 2011 , and The Wedding Planner Jennifer Lopez 2001 Knocked Up 2007 Katherine Heigl and Seth Rogan I loved watching as a Big Madonna Fan was great too add this too my Rom Com and Madonna Movie Collection . Review: Not a Romcom but a Decent Relationship Drama - This is not the best film ever made, but nor is it as bad as many reviewers would have you believe. The problem really seems to be the marketing of the film. Labeling it as romance and comedy leads viewers to expect a fluffy romcom with a happy ending that will leave everybody in a good place and the audience with a smile on their faces. But this film is a relationship drama. You know right from the start that Robert (Rupert Everett) is Abbie's (Madonna) gay best friend, not a potential new boyfriend. She has just broken up with her partner, he consoles her. After a few drinks they spend a night together (which the audience knows is a mistake, not a U-turn in sexual orientation for Robert) and soon after Abbie finds she's pregnant. They decide to live together, without any pretense of being anything else than what they are, and bring up their child together. Robert has his affairs, which Abbie tolerates, but he does his best to be a good father to his son. However, when Abbie meets a man and decides to move across the country to New York with him, planning to bring her son with her, an ugly custody battle ensues. And while so far everybody has been on their best behaviour playing happy families, albeit with a difference, now the uglier side of human nature comes to the fore and the young boy is left between two fighting parents. As is sadly often the case in the real world. Rupert Everett and Madonna as the two leads work just fine. Theirs aren't award winning performances, but they both look good on the screen and the dynamics in their dysfunctional ralationship/family in the film felt very real. If you're looking for an upbeat little romcom, stay away from this, but if you like the actors and are good with a drama that goes to darker places, this may work for you very well. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B000057X1Y | | Actors | Benjamin Bratt, Josef Sommer, Madonna, Michael Vartan, Rupert Everett | | Aspect Ratio | 16:9 - 1.85:1 | | Best Sellers Rank | 28,508 in DVD & Blu-ray ( See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray ) 1,210 in Romance (DVD & Blu-ray) 4,971 in Comedy (DVD & Blu-ray) 9,100 in Drama (DVD & Blu-ray) | | Customer reviews | 4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars (209) | | Director | John Schlesinger | | Is discontinued by manufacturer | No | | Item model number | BED888156 | | Language | English (Dolby Digital 5.0) | | Media Format | PAL | | Number of discs | 1 | | Package Dimensions | 18.03 x 13.76 x 1.48 cm; 80 g | | Producers | Leslie Dixon, Linne Radmin, Tom Rosenberg | | Release date | 9 April 2001 | | Run time | 1 hour and 43 minutes | | Studio | Walt Disney Studios HE | | Subtitles: | Danish, English, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish | | Writers | Tom Ropelewski | ## Product Details - **Format:** PAL - **Genre:** Comedy - **Language:** English - **Runtime:** 1 hour and 43 minutes ## Images ![The Next Best Thing [DVD] - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61otwKCV5xL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Great Feel Good Back too 2000’s movie one too watch on a lazy Sunday Afternoon. *by A***E on 19 December 2019* This is despite having awful reviews which are only 19 percent Rating on Rotten Tomato’s and the movie from a reviewer is not exactly a good review for a movie you might want too see it goes like ‘’Story Elements clash and Acting falls short ‘’ . I am a massive fan of Madonna and already have Desperately Seeking Susan in my Madonna DVD collection so I had too see this it is a comedy set well almost 20 Years since it came out in the millennium , it is about Women called Abbie who has had a string of not very committed men she decides I believe she is about 34 , she wants a baby but she has a great friend in Robert played Hilariously by Rupert Everett, problem him being gay then one night after one too many drinks in a massive big wonderful mansion which is Roberts , Abby is dressed in 20’s High Society Flapper they have sex Abby wakes up the next day in Mink Fur everything is absolutely going well until she tells him she is pregnant though they will never fully have a loving relationship they decide too be reasonable for their son Sam and live too together though sharing Separate beds Abbie meets a new very attractive lover called Ben a Investment Banker she goes too Beach with Ben , Robert is well acting highly jealous and more like well a bit of a dork in my opinion there is a twist as he is not little Sam’s dad after all but he raises the child with her a custody battle starts as he is furious she kept it from him for six years, He tries too take her too court, also it has the song cover of Don McLean’s 1971 song American Pie this movie is ok it is a well crafted story and I think the bad reviews are absolutely not justified I also think it has a good real life Comedy element dealing with a 21st century element of the social economic differences in Family life a women raising a child with her best friend who she will never love as he is homosexual, and his awareness towards that how he feels it reminds of her role in comedy I love that Movie From 1985 Desperately Seeking Susan, Madonna is a good actress and looks absolutely beautiful Abby is a Yoga Teacher by Job Madonna is a well known Yogi, and also Abbie is vegetarian though it is quite funny she bites into a beef burger with her pregnancy carvings, it has quite a usual ending . Do watch If You like Movies Like Sarah Jessica Parker I don’t know how she does it 2011 , Just Go with it Jennifer Anniston and Adam Sandler 2011 , and The Wedding Planner Jennifer Lopez 2001 Knocked Up 2007 Katherine Heigl and Seth Rogan I loved watching as a Big Madonna Fan was great too add this too my Rom Com and Madonna Movie Collection . ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Not a Romcom but a Decent Relationship Drama *by C***A on 11 July 2017* This is not the best film ever made, but nor is it as bad as many reviewers would have you believe. The problem really seems to be the marketing of the film. Labeling it as romance and comedy leads viewers to expect a fluffy romcom with a happy ending that will leave everybody in a good place and the audience with a smile on their faces. But this film is a relationship drama. You know right from the start that Robert (Rupert Everett) is Abbie's (Madonna) gay best friend, not a potential new boyfriend. She has just broken up with her partner, he consoles her. After a few drinks they spend a night together (which the audience knows is a mistake, not a U-turn in sexual orientation for Robert) and soon after Abbie finds she's pregnant. They decide to live together, without any pretense of being anything else than what they are, and bring up their child together. Robert has his affairs, which Abbie tolerates, but he does his best to be a good father to his son. However, when Abbie meets a man and decides to move across the country to New York with him, planning to bring her son with her, an ugly custody battle ensues. And while so far everybody has been on their best behaviour playing happy families, albeit with a difference, now the uglier side of human nature comes to the fore and the young boy is left between two fighting parents. As is sadly often the case in the real world. Rupert Everett and Madonna as the two leads work just fine. Theirs aren't award winning performances, but they both look good on the screen and the dynamics in their dysfunctional ralationship/family in the film felt very real. If you're looking for an upbeat little romcom, stay away from this, but if you like the actors and are good with a drama that goes to darker places, this may work for you very well. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ BRILLIANT FILM *by A***E on 7 January 2016* Reading some of the reviews I thought this film would be rubbish. It was great to watch with good performances from Rupert Everett and Madonna with a good and convincing performance by a young boy called Malcolm Stumpf (Star of "Wild Tigers i Have Known (a brilliant film) ). Though I could find no mention of his name on the DVD case, when he was one of the leading actors. A film I will watch again and again. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.in/products/56412643-the-next-best-thing-dvd](https://www.desertcart.in/products/56412643-the-next-best-thing-dvd) --- *Product available on Desertcart India* *Store origin: IN* *Last updated: 2026-05-09*