Dinner with Friends vs The Boys Are Back
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.3/10 for The Boys Are Back). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 44m. The Boys Are Back is the older of the two (2009 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
| Dinner with Friends | The Boys Are Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 6.3/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2009 |
| Length | 1h 36m | 1h 44m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Sasha Leigh Henry | Scott Hicks |
| Main cast | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell | Tommy Bastow, Clive Owen, Laura Fraser, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Natasha Little |
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 Boys Are Back
When the wife of sports-writer Joe Warr dies of cancer, he takes on the responsibility of raising their 6-year-old son, and his teenage son from a previous marriage. As Joe rejects the counsel of his mother-in-law and other parents, he develops his own philosophies on parenting.
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