3.6
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The Next Best Thing (2000)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 3.6
Overview
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.
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Positive
Overview
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.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Progressive
Primary
The film's central thesis explicitly promotes the acceptance and validation of non-traditional family structures and gay parenting, challenging traditional norms and advocating for LGBTQ+ rights within the family context.
The movie features a predominantly white main cast without explicit race or gender swaps of traditional roles. However, its narrative is centrally focused on challenging traditional family structures and heteronormative societal expectations through the story of a gay man and a straight woman co-parenting.
Secondary
The film portrays a gay man as a central, loving, and complex father figure. While it highlights the societal prejudice and legal challenges faced by gay parents through a custody battle, the narrative maintains an empathetic stance, affirming the worth of LGBTQ+ lives and love within unconventional family structures.
The film 'The Next Best Thing' does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. Its narrative focuses on the platonic relationship between a straight woman and a gay man who decide to raise a child together, exploring themes of unconventional family structures and gay parenting.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The Next Best Thing is an original film from 2000, not an adaptation, reboot, or biopic. All characters were created for this specific movie, meaning there is no prior canonical or historical gender to swap from.
The Next Best Thing is an original film from 2000, not an adaptation of existing source material or a biopic. Its characters were created for this specific movie, meaning there was no prior canonical or historical racial establishment to be altered.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
4.7
5.3
Critic Ratings
1.9
2.5
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