If you loved Cold Comfort Farm, try The Next Best Thing

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by John Schlesinger, and they both carry the bittersweet mood tag, and they sit in Comedy / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to Cold Comfort Farm, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What The Next Best Thing is

Here's a film that asks, "Can't gays and straights just get along...and raise a child?" Best friends Abbie and Robert do just that until Abbie decides she wants to move to New York with her new boyfriend and their son. Naturally, Robert sues for custody. It proved to be Schlesinger's final film.

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