Akeelah and the Bee vs Dinner with Friends
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.1/10 for Akeelah and the Bee). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 52m. Akeelah and the Bee is the older of the two (2006 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Akeelah and the Bee
Dinner with Friends| Akeelah and the Bee | Dinner with Friends | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.1/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2006 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 52m | 1h 36m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | United States of America | – |
| Director | Doug Atchison | Sasha Leigh Henry |
| Main cast | Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett, Keke Palmer, Tzi Ma, Eddie Steeples | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell |
Synopsis
Akeelah and the Bee
11-year-old Akeelah Anderson has a way with words. After winning her schoolwide spelling bee, she decides to enter the competition, despite her classmates' derision and the antipathy of her mother Tanya. Thanks to the efforts of her teacher Dr. Larabee, she reaches the finals. As she gets to know her fellow competitors, Akeelah realizes that coming first isn't everything in life.
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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