Boy Erased vs Dinner with Friends
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7/10 for Boy Erased). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 55m. Boy Erased is the older of the two (2018 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
| Boy Erased | Dinner with Friends | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.0/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2018 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 55m | 1h 36m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Joel Edgerton | Sasha Leigh Henry |
| Main cast | Joel Edgerton, Madelyn Cline, Nicole Kidman, Cherry Jones, Lucas Hedges | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell |
Synopsis
Boy Erased
Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his family, friends, and faith.
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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