Breakthrough vs Dinner with Friends
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.6/10 for Breakthrough). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 56m. Breakthrough is the older of the two (2019 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
| Breakthrough | Dinner with Friends | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.6/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2019 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 56m | 1h 36m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Roxann Dawson | Sasha Leigh Henry |
| Main cast | Sam Trammell, Mike Colter, Alissa Skovbye, Josh Lucas, Dennis Haysbert | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell |
Synopsis
Breakthrough
Tragedy strikes when a woman named Joyce's son falls through the ice on a frozen lake and is trapped underwater for over 15 minutes. After being rushed to the hospital, the 14-year-old boy continues to fight for his life as Joyce, her husband and their pastor stay by his bedside and pray for a miracle.
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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