A Better Life vs Dinner with Friends
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.2/10 for A Better Life). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 38m. A Better Life is the older of the two (2011 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
A Better Life
Dinner with Friends| A Better Life | Dinner with Friends | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.2/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2011 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 38m | 1h 36m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Chris Weitz | Sasha Leigh Henry |
| Main cast | Dolores Heredia, Demián Bichir, Joaquín Cosío, Nancy Lenehan, Tim Griffin | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell |
Synopsis
A Better Life
A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for the city's wealthy landowners.
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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