Dinner with Friends vs Playing 'In the Company of Men'

Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.3/10 for Playing 'In the Company of Men'). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 2h 1m. Playing 'In the Company of Men' is the older of the two (2003 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Dinner with Friends posterDinner with Friends2025 VS Playing 'In the Company of Men' posterPlaying 'In the Company of Men'2003
Dinner with FriendsPlaying 'In the Company of Men'
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 7.3/10
Year20252003
Length1h 36m2h 1m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorSasha Leigh HenryArnaud Desplechin
Main castTattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew BushellSami Bouajila, Anna Mouglalis, Anne Consigny, Hippolyte Girardot, Wladimir Yordanoff

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…

Playing 'In the Company of Men'

A troupe of actors rehearse a play. In the play-within-the-film, an ambitious son and his distant father fight for control of an armaments firm and are pushed to eventual destruction by dangerous outside forces and traitorous aides.

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