The Next Best Thing vs What We Wanted to Be
What We Wanted to Be has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 5.3/10 for The Next Best Thing). What We Wanted to Be is the shorter watch at 1h 24m compared with 1h 48m. The Next Best Thing is the older of the two (2000 against 2024). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
The Next Best Thing
What We Wanted to Be| The Next Best Thing | What We Wanted to Be | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 5.3/10 | ★ 7.8/10 |
| Year | 2000 | 2024 |
| Length | 1h 48m | 1h 24m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | – | Argentina |
| Director | John Schlesinger | Alejandro Agresti |
| Main cast | Neil Patrick Harris, Rupert Everett, Benjamin Bratt, Josef Sommer, Madonna | Eleonora Wexler, Luis Rubio, Antonio Agresti, Carlos Gorosito |
Synopsis
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.
What We Wanted to Be
An impossible love story that begins outside a movie theater, continues in a café and could end with the two protagonists together… if real life wasn’t much more complicated than the movies. United by their love of cinema, these two main characters decide to live the lives they dreamed of and not the lives they are destined to live. In a series of encounters, imagination triumphs over reality and everyday reality takes a back seat.
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