Beautiful Boy vs Dinner with Friends

Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.6/10 for Beautiful Boy). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 59m. Beautiful Boy is the older of the two (2018 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Beautiful Boy posterBeautiful Boy2018 VS Dinner with Friends posterDinner with Friends2025
Beautiful BoyDinner with Friends
Audience score★ 7.6/10★ 10.0/10
Year20182025
Length1h 59m1h 36m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorFelix van GroeningenSasha Leigh Henry
Main castJulian Works, Maura Tierney, Timothy Hutton, Amy Ryan, Timothée ChalametTattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell

Synopsis

Beautiful Boy

After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.

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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