Dinner with Friends vs Happening

Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.2/10 for Happening). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 40m. Happening is the older of the two (2021 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Dinner with Friends posterDinner with Friends2025 VS Happening posterHappening2021
Dinner with FriendsHappening
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 7.2/10
Year20252021
Length1h 36m1h 40m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorSasha Leigh HenryAudrey Diwan
Main castTattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew BushellAnna Mouglalis, Anamaria Vartolomei, Sandrine Bonnaire, Fabrizio Rongione, Pio Marmaï

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…

Happening

France, 1963. Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she falls pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her social background disappearing. With her final exams fast approaching and her belly growing, Anne resolves to act, even if she has to confront shame and pain, even if she must risk prison to do so.

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