Hana Yori Dango: Final vs The Next Best Thing

Hana Yori Dango: Final 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 2h 11m. The Next Best Thing is the older of the two (2000 against 2008). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Hana Yori Dango: Final posterHana Yori Dango: Final2008 VS The Next Best Thing posterThe Next Best Thing2000
Hana Yori Dango: FinalThe Next Best Thing
Audience score★ 8.0/10★ 5.3/10
Year20082000
Length2h 11m1h 48m
GenresComedy, Drama, RomanceComedy, Drama, Romance
Country––
DirectorYasuharu IshiiJohn Schlesinger
Main castShun Oguri, Natsuki Kato, Tsuyoshi Abe, Nanako Matsushima, Mao InoueNeil Patrick Harris, Rupert Everett, Benjamin Bratt, Josef Sommer, Madonna

Synopsis

Hana Yori Dango: Final

Four years have passed since that emotional marriage proposal at Tsukushi Makino's high-school prom, and Tsukasa Dōmyōji announced his engagement to Tsukushi to the entire world. At an engagement dinner between their families, Dōmyōji's mother, who has been strongly against their relationship before, presents Tsukushi a tiara, which is estimated to be worth roughly 10 billion yen, as a token of their engagement. But that night, the tiara is…

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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