Being Flynn vs Dinner with Friends
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.2/10 for Being Flynn). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 42m. Being Flynn is the older of the two (2012 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Being Flynn
Dinner with Friends| Being Flynn | Dinner with Friends | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.2/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2012 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 42m | 1h 36m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Paul Weitz | Sasha Leigh Henry |
| Main cast | Paul Dano, Wes Studi, Lili Taylor, Thomas Middleditch, Robert De Niro | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell |
Synopsis
Being Flynn
Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick wrestles with the notion of reaching out yet again to his dad.
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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