Dinner with Friends vs The Friend
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.7/10 for The Friend). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 59m. Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Dinner with Friends
The Friend| Dinner with Friends | The Friend | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 6.7/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 36m | 1h 59m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Sasha Leigh Henry | David Siegel, Scott McGehee |
| Main cast | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell | Carla Gugino, Felix Solis, Noma Dumezweni, Bill Murray, Owen Teague |
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 Friend
New York City writer Iris finds her comfortable, solitary life thrown into disarray after her closest friend and mentor bequeaths her a Great Dane named Apollo. The huge dog immediately creates practical problems for Iris, from furniture destruction to eviction notices, as well as more existential ones. Yet as Iris finds herself unexpectedly bonding with Apollo, she begins to come to terms with her past, and her own creative inner life.
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