American Beauty vs Dinner with Friends
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 8/10 for American Beauty). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 2h 2m. American Beauty is the older of the two (1999 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
American Beauty
Dinner with Friends| American Beauty | Dinner with Friends | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.0/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 1999 | 2025 |
| Length | 2h 2m | 1h 36m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Sam Mendes | Sasha Leigh Henry |
| Main cast | Scott Bakula, Wes Bentley, John Cho, Chris Cooper, Kevin Spacey | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell |
Synopsis
American Beauty
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
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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