Dinner with Friends vs I Wish

Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.3/10 for I Wish). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 2h 7m. I Wish is the older of the two (2011 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Dinner with Friends posterDinner with Friends2025 VS I Wish posterI Wish2011
Dinner with FriendsI Wish
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 7.3/10
Year20252011
Length1h 36m2h 7m
GenresDramaDrama
Country–Japan
DirectorSasha Leigh HenryHirokazu Kore-eda
Main castTattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew BushellHiroshi Abe, Masami Nagasawa, Yui Natsukawa, Joe Odagiri, Kirin Kiki

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 Wish

Twelve-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents' divorce, hears a rumor that the new bullet trains will precipitate a wish-granting miracle when they pass each other at top speed.

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