20th Century Women vs Dinner with Friends

Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.3/10 for 20th Century Women). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 58m. 20th Century Women is the older of the two (2016 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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20th Century WomenDinner with Friends
Audience score★ 7.3/10★ 10.0/10
Year20162025
Length1h 58m1h 36m
GenresDramaDrama
Country–Canada
DirectorMike MillsSasha Leigh Henry
Main castLucas Jade Zumann, Alia Shawkat, Billy Crudup, Alison Elliott, Annette BeningTattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell

Synopsis

20th Century Women

In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women – Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields' home and Julie, a savvy and provocative teenage neighbour – to help with Jamie's upbringing.

Dinner with Friends

After the parties, jobs, and hook-ups throughout their twenties and into their thirties, eight friends are trying to hold on to their group as they get older and life gets complicated. Over a series of dinners, the group deals with loyalty, loss, and an uncertain future as relationships shift and secrets are unraveled, with each dinner bringing its own dynamic-shifting announcement of reconciliation, unexpected relationships, and betrayal. The…

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