Dinner with Friends vs The Bench
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.9/10 for The Bench). The Bench is the shorter watch at 1h 29m compared with 1h 36m. The Bench is the older of the two (2000 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Dinner with Friends
The Bench| Dinner with Friends | The Bench | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 6.9/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2000 |
| Length | 1h 36m | 1h 29m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Sasha Leigh Henry | Per Fly |
| Main cast | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell | Sarah Boberg, Jens Albinus, Anette Støvelbæk, Jesper Christensen, Nicolaj Kopernikus |
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…
The Bench
Kaj is a stubborn man with a great deal of pride. The former chef lives in a council flat. He has wasted his life and is now on a council job training scheme for the long-term unemployed, where he refuses to let the foreman of the activation project boss him about. When Kaj's daughter, with whom he has not been in touch for nineteen years, moves into the same council estate on the run from her violent husband, a change comes over Kaj. His…
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