Dinner with Friends vs The Children Act

Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.6/10 for The Children Act). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 45m. The Children Act is the older of the two (2018 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Dinner with Friends posterDinner with Friends2025 VS The Children Act posterThe Children Act2018
Dinner with FriendsThe Children Act
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 6.6/10
Year20252018
Length1h 36m1h 45m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorSasha Leigh HenryRichard Eyre
Main castTattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew BushellEileen Walsh, Emma Thompson, Ben Chaplin, Stanley Tucci, Rosie Cavaliero

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 Children Act

In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving blood transfusion for a teen with cancer despite his family's refusal to accept medical treatment for religious reasons.

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