Millennium Actress vs The Next Best Thing
Millennium Actress has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 5.3/10 for The Next Best Thing). Millennium Actress is the shorter watch at 1h 27m compared with 1h 48m. The Next Best Thing is the older of the two (2000 against 2002). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Millennium Actress
The Next Best Thing| Millennium Actress | The Next Best Thing | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.8/10 | ★ 5.3/10 |
| Year | 2002 | 2000 |
| Length | 1h 27m | 1h 48m |
| Genres | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Satoshi Kon | John Schlesinger |
| Main cast | Fumiko Orikasa, Koichi Yamadera, Shozo Iizuka, Masaya Onosaka, Masane Tsukayama | Neil Patrick Harris, Rupert Everett, Benjamin Bratt, Josef Sommer, Madonna |
Synopsis
Millennium Actress
Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her with a key she had lost and thought was gone forever, the filmmaker could not have imagined that it would not only unlock the long-held secrets of Chiyoko’s life... but also his own.
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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