Dinner with Friends vs The Butler
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.3/10 for The Butler). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 2h 12m. The Butler is the older of the two (2013 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Dinner with Friends
The Butler| Dinner with Friends | The Butler | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.3/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2013 |
| Length | 1h 36m | 2h 12m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Sasha Leigh Henry | Lee Daniels |
| Main cast | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell | Michael Rainey Jr., Terrence Howard, James Marsden, Vanessa Redgrave, Forest Whitaker |
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 Butler
A look at the life of Cecil Gaines, who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.
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