Dinner with Friends vs Maddened by His Absence
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 5.9/10 for Maddened by His Absence). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 38m. Maddened by His Absence is the older of the two (2012 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Dinner with Friends
Maddened by His Absence| Dinner with Friends | Maddened by His Absence | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 5.9/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2012 |
| Length | 1h 36m | 1h 38m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | Canada | Belgium |
| Director | Sasha Leigh Henry | Sandrine Bonnaire |
| Main cast | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell | William Hurt, Augustin Legrand, Alexandra Lamy, Jean-François Wolff, Colette Kieffer |
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…
Maddened by His Absence
After ten years, Jacques comes back to France to handle his father’s succession. He had left France to live in the USA to escape a painful past he shared with Mado, his former wife, who in the meantime built a new life with Stéphane and their 7 year old son, Paul. Upon his return, Jacques and Mado meet again; he asks to meet her son Paul; Mado hesitates, then accepts but hides it from her husband. Soon, Paul and Jacques get close and they start…
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