Blues for Willadean vs Dinner with Friends
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 4.5/10 for Blues for Willadean). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 49m. Blues for Willadean is the older of the two (2012 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Blues for Willadean
Dinner with Friends| Blues for Willadean | Dinner with Friends | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 4.5/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2012 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 49m | 1h 36m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | US | – |
| Director | Del Shores | Sasha Leigh Henry |
| Main cast | Octavia Spencer, Dale Dickey, David Steen, Beth Grant, Andrea Cohen | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell |
Synopsis
Blues for Willadean
The film adaptation of Del Shores' hit play. Under the thumb of her abusive husband, post-middle age Willadean feels life has passed her by until she makes some unlikely friends. Del Shores adapts this uplifting story from his play "The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife."
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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