Dinner with Friends vs Good Will Hunting

Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 8.2/10 for Good Will Hunting). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 2h 7m. Good Will Hunting is the older of the two (1997 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Dinner with Friends posterDinner with Friends2025 VS Good Will Hunting posterGood Will Hunting1997
Dinner with FriendsGood Will Hunting
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 8.2/10
Year20251997
Length1h 36m2h 7m
GenresDramaDrama
Country–United States of America
DirectorSasha Leigh HenryGus Van Sant
Main castTattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew BushellCole Hauser, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Minnie Driver, Casey Affleck

Synopsis

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…

Good Will Hunting

Headstrong yet aimless, Will Hunting has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. When he secretly solves highly difficult graduate-level math problems, his talents are discovered by Professor Gerald Lambeau, who decides to help the misguided youth reach his potential. When Will is arrested for attacking a police officer, Professor Lambeau makes a deal to get leniency for him if he gets court-ordered therapy. Eventually…

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