Boogie Nights vs Dinner with Friends
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.6/10 for Boogie Nights). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 2h 36m. Boogie Nights is the older of the two (1997 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
| Boogie Nights | Dinner with Friends | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.6/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 1997 | 2025 |
| Length | 2h 36m | 1h 36m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Paul Thomas Anderson | Sasha Leigh Henry |
| Main cast | Don Cheadle, William H. Macy, Nicole Ari Parker, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alfred Molina | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell |
Synopsis
Boogie Nights
Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a nightclub, and welcomes him into the extended family of movie-makers, misfits and hangers-on that are always around. Adams' rise from nobody to a celebrity adult entertainer is meteoric, and soon the whole…
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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