"The Next Best Thing" is a romance movie directed by John Schlesinger and starring Madonna and Rupert Everett.
The romance movie tells the story of Abby and Robert's love affair, and although they've avoided each other since then, Abby finds out she's pregnant. The two decided to have the baby. Things changed when bank investor Ben Cooper stepped into the life of the family of three. Abi is a yoga counselor. She has just experienced a painful breakup with her boyfriend. Now, she wants someone to share her emptiness with her and even have a child. 
Abbie has a best friend named Robert, a gay architectural designer who has been struggling with his "love". When Abbie finds Robert, two lonely hearts snuggle together, filling each other's emptiness. The death of a close friend becomes the catalyst for the further development of their friendship. In the afternoon of a cocktail dinner, two lives in deep sorrow finally collide with passion. Although they avoided each other after that, Abbie found out she was pregnant. The two had to negotiate the matter, and they made an amazing decision to have this child. And they also began to play the role of the child's parents. Despite the backlash from their friends, they were determined to do it in the romance movie.
But as the romance movie story progresses, Abbie and Robert's son, Sam, has grown into a beautiful, confident six-year-old boy whose parents also struggle to maintain their "parenthood" in a humorous and lighthearted atmosphere, however, On this day, this situation finally changes. Ben Cooper, a bank investor who came to Los Angeles from New York on a business trip, walked into Abbie's yoga class. He and her fell in love at first sight.
The "happy" family of three is coming to an end, but Robert finds that his life is different from 6 years ago. How will Abbie and Robert's "temporary love story" end? Look to be suffocated to death. The logic of the movie was very chaotic at the beginning, the old-fashioned drunkenness, the male protagonist thought that the child was his own, so the two lived together because of the child, and then suddenly turned around and the child was the ex-boyfriend's and the female protagonist knew, just Because he was lonely and didn't want to raise the child alone, he pushed his best heterosexual gay friend into the fire pit, deprived him of his time, and finally deprived him of joint custody of the child after finding another lover. The fat man insulted Robert in court. 
The heroine is so slut, the most uncomfortable and thought-provoking topic of the romance movie is who can come first in a love and-blood relationship, and whether it is the law or the fact that he is a vulnerable group that makes the hero falls into such pain. objective factors so doomed to tragedy?
The romance movie has yet to answer at the end.