Let's discuss "The Next Best Thing" (2000)

It's forgotten because it was terrible

R1 BUT it spawned Madge's masterpiece single, a cover of Don McLean's "American Pie"!

Let’s not, OP.

R3 the film is a disaster and therefore, I believe it warrants DL discussion

Rupert Everett has always insisted he did not become a huge star back then only because he was out of the closet, but I think it had more to do with the fact he mumbled all his lines.

I’m one of the few who didn’t hate the movie and liked Madonna’s cover of American Pie.

R5. What's wrong with mumbling lines?

Didn't John Schlesinger's partner once say making this movie with Madonna and Everett is what killed him?

let's discuss benjamin bratt’s nipples and chest ... scars....

Madge was none too happy and made it known when co Everett faghag at the time Julia Roberts (peak fame) turned up at the premiere with Benjamin Bratt and the crowd went wild completely upstaging Madonna. As she was being interviewed with the crowd screaming for Roberts behind them the reporter mentioned it to Madonna to which she replied "well she's the one person almost as famous as me." Later inside Everett brought Julia over to say hi to Madonna and said "Hi I'm Julia" and the nasty bitch replied with "I know who you are" and walked away. Meow bitch.

Am I remembering rightly that the baby wasn't Rupert's but some random guy? It wasn't the case that he was the sperm donor. He just decided to be a dad to someone else's kid.

Awful film. They tried to save it by having competent actors like Lynn Redgrave, Illeana Douglas, Fran Bennett, Michael Vartan, etc... play supporting roles but it didn't help.

I remember the kid doing a film where he played Fairuza Balk's son who would late night call some older jock and pretend to be a woman to engage in phone sex.

It’s so funny how this OP googles movies, reads about them and then posts here.

I can assure you, knowing who is posting the thread and looking at his posting history, this person has not watched these movies.

From "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" to this shite was a precipitous fall for the director in 30 years.

Madonna is a movie killer. She should not be in movies.

R8:

This was the last film directed by openly gay, Oscar-winning director John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy). It was said that difficulties he had with Madonna during filming contributed to a stroke he suffered after the film wrapped, which he never fully recovered from (he died in 2003). However, in an interview in the Advocate Everett chivalrously took the blame, admitting that he pushed the 73-year old Schlesinger too hard in an effort to have the movie made the way Everett envisioned.

Neil Patrick Harris gave the best performance in the whole rotten movie!

NPH was terrible. Especially during that funeral scene.

I bought the soundtrack on CD but I never liked the film itself.

awful. A last push to make M a movie star. No dice.

Never saw it, but I remember liking the song (even though it's kind of awful).

[quote]From "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" to this shite was a precipitous fall for the director in 30 years.

He had an amazing run though. Not everyone can sustain greatness forever.

From the 80s onwards there was very little to recommend other than the British dramas Madame Sousastka, A Question of Attribution and Cold Comfort Farm.

Pacific Heights was some good Hitchcockian schlock and I never saw the Sally Fields kills her daughter's rapist movie.

[quote]I never saw the Sally Fields kills her daughter's rapist movie.

You really should. The film is absolutely hilarious!

Seriously, it rivals Showgirls with the laugh factor.

Sally is at her most histrionic!

Every man she encounters is the man who killed her daughter.

I think this 1 is on tubi if you have interest. I don't. I could never sit through the film due to the poor performance of the leading lady. Rupert was good. There was a push to make him a movie star too, Again, no dice. but not due to lack of talent. He reminded me of an educated Cary Grant, no chemistry with his female leads.

The only leading lady Rupert has ever really had chemistry with is Colin Firth

R20. Ahem..... Did we forget about Peepee?

Poor Dorothy, she’s been saying Hail Marys since 1987.

They should've hired me, but they set out to make an Elvis film by casting Madonna.

Nail in coffin, r27. Finito for real.

[quote] Everett brought Julia over to say hi to Madonna and said "Hi I'm Julia" and the nasty bitch replied with "I know who you are" and walked away. Meow bitch.

Julia would never be a bitch, EVER