Detachment vs Dinner with Friends
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.6/10 for Detachment). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 38m. Detachment is the older of the two (2011 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Detachment
Dinner with Friends| Detachment | Dinner with Friends | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.6/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2011 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 38m | 1h 36m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Tony Kaye | Sasha Leigh Henry |
| Main cast | Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks, Isiah Whitlock, Jr., Lucy Liu, Blythe Danner | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell |
Synopsis
Detachment
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.
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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