Being 17 vs Dinner with Friends
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.8/10 for Being 17). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 56m. Being 17 is the older of the two (2016 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Being 17
Dinner with Friends| Being 17 | Dinner with Friends | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.8/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2016 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 56m | 1h 36m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | André Téchiné | Sasha Leigh Henry |
| Main cast | Kacey Mottet Klein, Sandrine Kiberlain, Corentin Fila, Alexis Loret, Jean Fornerod | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell |
Synopsis
Being 17
Damien lives with his mother Marianne, a doctor, while his father, a pilot, is on a tour of duty abroad with the French military. At school, Damien is bullied by Thomas, who lives in the farming community up in the mountains. The boys find themselves living together when Marianne invites Thomas to come and stay with them while his mother is ill in hospital. Damien must learn to live with the boy who terrorized him.
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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