Dinner with Friends vs The Good Lie
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.4/10 for The Good Lie). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 50m. The Good Lie is the older of the two (2014 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Dinner with Friends
The Good Lie| Dinner with Friends | The Good Lie | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.4/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2014 |
| Length | 1h 36m | 1h 50m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Sasha Leigh Henry | Philippe Falardeau |
| Main cast | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell | Corey Stoll, Reese Witherspoon, Joshua Mikel, Thad Luckinbill, Maria Howell |
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 Good Lie
A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them, but the young man struggles to adjust to this new life and his feelings of guilt about the brother he left behind.
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