Next Best Thing

Abbie (Madonna) and Robert (Rupert Everett) are best friends with so much in common - a joyful, unconventional approach to life; quick wit and intelligence; an endearing impulsiveness...and miserable luck in love. 

They would make the perfect couple, but one thing prevents them from looking to each other for romance - Robert is gay. 

A day comes, however, when too many cocktails and a twist of fate takes them to a new level of intimacy... and turns them into parents. A whole new world has opened up for them, and for the sake of Sam, their child (played by newcomer Malcolm Stumpf), Abbie and Robert decide to live together as a family. Theirs may not be the perfect family - but it is the next best thing. 

  "The Next Best Thing" stars Rupert Everett and Madonna, and is directed by Academy AwardŽ winner John Schlesinger from a screenplay by Thomas Ropelewski. The film also stars Benjamin Bratt, Michael Vartan, Josef Sommer, Malcolm Stumpf, Neil Patrick Harris and Lynn Redgrave. Tom Rosenberg, Leslie Dixon and Linne Radmin are the producers, and Gary Lucchesi, Ted Tannebaum and Lewis Manilow are the executive producers for the film. Marcus Viscidi and Richard S. Wright are the co-producers. "The Next Best Thing," is a Lakeshore Entertainment production and is distributed by Paramount Pictures, which is part of the entertainment operations of Viacom Inc.  

Source : Obtained from Movie Homepage