
10 Best Movies Like The Next Best Thing
If you loved The Next Best Thing, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Fatherhood
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Next Best Thing for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
A widowed new dad copes with doubts, fears, heartache and dirty diapers as he sets out to raise his daughter on his own. Inspired by a true story....

Nothing in Common
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Next Best Thing for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
A successful advertising executive finds his freewheeling life crashing to a halt when his parents end their longtime marriage....

Peace, Love & Misunderstanding
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Next Best Thing for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
A conservative lawyer named Diane takes her two teenage children Jake and Zoe to meet their estranged, hippie grandmother in Woodstock after her husband asks for a divorce....

Celeste & Jesse Forever
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Next Best Thing for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Celeste and Jesse met in high school and got married young. They laugh at the same jokes and finish each other’s sentences. They are forever linked in their friends’ minds as the p...

Stepmom
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Next Best Thing for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Jackie is a divorced mother of two. Isabel is the career minded girlfriend of Jackie’s ex-husband Luke, forced into the role of unwelcome stepmother to their children. But when Jac...

Daddy's Little Girls
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Next Best Thing for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Monty is a mechanic struggling to make ends meet as he raises his three young daughters. When the court awards custody of his daughters to his shady ex-wife, Monty desperately trie...