A Sad and Beautiful World vs The Next Best Thing
A Sad and Beautiful World has the higher audience score (8/10 against 5.3/10 for The Next Best Thing). The Next Best Thing is the shorter watch at 1h 48m compared with 1h 50m. The Next Best Thing is the older of the two (2000 against 2025). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
A Sad and Beautiful World
The Next Best Thing| A Sad and Beautiful World | The Next Best Thing | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.0/10 | ★ 5.3/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2000 |
| Length | 1h 50m | 1h 48m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | Lebanon | – |
| Director | Cyril Aris | John Schlesinger |
| Main cast | Camille Salameh, Julia Kassar, Mounia Akl, Hasan Akil, Tino Karam | Neil Patrick Harris, Rupert Everett, Benjamin Bratt, Josef Sommer, Madonna |
Synopsis
A Sad and Beautiful World
In this sweeping love story that spans three decades of passion, heartbreak, and hope, Nino and Yasmina find themselves drawn together by a magnetic relationship. As they face an impossible choice between love and survival, they must decide if they want to build a family and chart a path to happiness in Lebanon, despite the tragedies ravaging the country.
The Next Best Thing
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.
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