Product: The Next Best Thing (2000)
Rating: 1.0
WHY? WHY? WHY?
This, simply, is the worst thing I have ever watched. I did not choose to watch it. I saw it on an airplane. Madonna is without a doubt the worst actress I have ever witnessed. I should not even call her an actress really. She is without a doubt the most unqualified person I have ever seen attempting to act. Her greatest problem, I think, is that she just tries too hard. Either that or she does not try at all. Her characters all seem like caricatured extensions of her public persona. Perhaps she is affected by the fact that she is Madonna. You cannot lose sight of the fact that she is Madonna when you see her in films. Still, from anyone else, the viewing public would not accept this level of crap. The story is about a yoga teacher (Madonna) and her gay best friend. In a night of reckless abandon and heartbreak, she becomes pregnant with what she believes is his child (I think it turns out that the child is not his, but they do not discover this until their friendship sours and he wants to share custody of the child). She eventually meets and falls in love with Benjamin Bratt's character. It is all quite sappy, stupid, juvenile. I have never seen anything so contrived as Madonna's scenes with Bratt. It is a big waste of time and film.