Synopsis
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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Cast
- MadonnaAbbie Reynolds
- Rupert EverettRobert Whittaker
- Benjamin BrattBen Cooper
- Malcolm StumpfSam
- Josef SommerRichard Whittaker
- Suzanne KrullAnnabel
- Linda LarkinKelly
- Illeana DouglasElizabeth Ryder
- Michael VartanKevin Lasater
- Lynn RedgraveHelen Whittaker
Recommandations
- 63
Charlotte Observer
Characters behave arbitrarily and incredibly, and a clumsy resolution brings the film to a thudding halt. - 50
Rolling Stone
Essentially an old-fashioned weepie gussied up for Y2K. - 50
Austin Chronicle
If only someone had taken away that disastrous third act we'd have one of the better mainstream films dealing with the impossible societal demands put upon gay parenting yet made. No such luck, though. - 50
New York Daily News
Not even Rupert Everett is able to breathe life into soapy Thing. - 38
Baltimore Sun
Of Madonna's considerable talents, making the camera love her isn't one: The screen seems to go dead every time she's on it. - 38
Boston Globe
Never having decided whether it wants to be comedy or a sentimental hand-wringer, it tries to be both and winds up being neither. - 25
Chicago Sun-Times
A garage sale of gay issues, harnessed to a plot as exhausted as a junkman's horse. - 25
Christian Science Monitor
The movie has a well-meaning message about love and loyalty being the bedrock of real family values, but its good intentions sag as the story trades its air of mischievous comedy for trite sentimentality, arbitrary plot twists, and enough maudlin melodramatics to sustain a tabloid TV series.
