The Next Best Thing is a 2000 comedy/drama film starring Rupert Everett, Madonna and Benjamin Bratt. Rupert James Hector Everett (born May 29, 1959) is a British actor. ... Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is an iconic Italian-American pop singer, dancer, songwriter, author and actress. ... Benjamin Bratt as Detective Reynaldo Curtis on Law & Order. ...
A comedy-drama about best friends-one a straight woman, Abbie (Madonna), the other a gay man, Robert (Rupert Everett)-who decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a straight man (Benjamin Bratt), and wants to move away with him and Robert`s little boy Sam, and a nasty full of suprises custody battle ensues.
The judges will determine who will go on to compete in the next round of auditions, while America will vote for the final winning impersonator through a viewer voting system.
Thirty semi-finalists will perform their routines in front of the judges and a live studio audience.
The ten finalists chosen by the judges will do one final performance for viewers at home, whose vote will then determine the winner and confer the $100,000 prize and the title of "The NextBestThing".
The two are the best of friends, sharing each other's personal dramas, but during one drunk night, the two of them sleep with one another and it messes up the friendship.
EXTRAS: Paramount has provided "NextBestThing" with a handful of smaller extras; first - we get the video for the "American Pie" cover from Madonna that came under some controversy since people weren't thrilled with her covering the classic tune.
The second supplement is the disc's biggest; a featurette called "Reflections on "NextBestThing" that is essentially many interviews from the cast and the director of the film edited together into a organized perspective on the film, and the occasional clip from behind-the-scenes footage.