Dinner with Friends vs Shine
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.4/10 for Shine). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 45m. Shine is the older of the two (1996 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Dinner with Friends
Shine| Dinner with Friends | Shine | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.4/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 1996 |
| Length | 1h 36m | 1h 45m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Sasha Leigh Henry | Scott Hicks |
| Main cast | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell | Noah Taylor, Nicholas Bell, Geoffrey Rush, Lynn Redgrave, John Gielgud |
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…
Shine
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
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