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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.

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#1
Fatherhood

Fatherhood

2021★ 7.5

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....

#2
Nothing in Common

Nothing in Common

1986★ 5.9

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....

#3
Peace, Love & Misunderstanding

Peace, Love & Misunderstanding

2011★ 5.8

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....

#4
Celeste & Jesse Forever

Celeste & Jesse Forever

2012★ 6.4

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...

#5
Stepmom

Stepmom

1998★ 7.2

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...

#6
Daddy's Little Girls

Daddy's Little Girls

2007★ 6.9

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...

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