Dinner with Friends vs The Family Friend
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.2/10 for The Family Friend). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 42m. The Family Friend is the older of the two (2006 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
| Dinner with Friends | The Family Friend | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.2/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2006 |
| Length | 1h 36m | 1h 42m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Sasha Leigh Henry | Paolo Sorrentino |
| Main cast | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell | Giorgio Colangeli, Marco Giallini, Barbara Scoppa, Gigi Angelillo, Luisa De Santis |
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 Family Friend
Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend". One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter. Geremia falls in love at first sight with the bewitching…
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