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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like The Next Best Thing, it turns an intimate friendship between a straight woman and a gay man into a tender, complicated alternative-family story, balancing romantic longing with affectionate late-1990s comedy-drama warmth.
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Why this pick
Its witty, New York-set relationship comedy shares the film’s interest in identities that do not fit easy romantic expectations, with a warm, character-led tone rather than broad farce.
03
Why this pick
This ensemble romantic comedy explores friendship, sexuality, and messy emotional boundaries with the same candid, turn-of-the-millennium sensibility and sympathetic focus on people building unconventional connections.
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Why this pick
A gentle, upbeat romantic comedy about an unexpected love that unsettles established plans; it matches The Next Best Thing’s polished warmth and its compassionate approach to complicated desire.
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Why this pick
For its glossy late-1990s urban-comedy mood and friendship-versus-romance complications, this is a lighter, more farcical companion to The Next Best Thing’s relationship entanglements.
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01 / THE STORY
Two best friendsone a Heterosexuality woman, Abbie, the other a Homosexuality man, Robert decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a heterosexual man and wants to move away with him and Robert's little boy, Sam, and a nasty custody battle ensues.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Abbie Reynolds
Robert Whittaker
Richard Whittaker
Ben Cooper
Annabel
Kelly
