Dinner with Friends vs The Bookshop
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.5/10 for The Bookshop). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 50m. The Bookshop is the older of the two (2017 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Dinner with Friends
The Bookshop| Dinner with Friends | The Bookshop | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 6.5/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2017 |
| Length | 1h 36m | 1h 50m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | Germany |
| Director | Sasha Leigh Henry | Isabel Coixet |
| Main cast | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell | Patricia Clarkson, Frances Barber, Bill Nighy, Charlotte Vega, Emily Mortimer |
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 Bookshop
Set in a small English town in 1959, a woman decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.
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