Dinner with Friends vs I, Daniel Blake

Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.7/10 for I, Daniel Blake). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 40m. I, Daniel Blake is the older of the two (2016 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Dinner with Friends posterDinner with Friends2025 VS I, Daniel Blake posterI, Daniel Blake2016
Dinner with FriendsI, Daniel Blake
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 7.7/10
Year20252016
Length1h 36m1h 40m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorSasha Leigh HenryKen Loach
Main castTattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew BushellShaun Prendergast, Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Briana Shann, Dylan McKiernan

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…

I, Daniel Blake

A middle aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.

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