Dinner with Friends vs The Great Debaters
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.2/10 for The Great Debaters). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 2h 6m. The Great Debaters is the older of the two (2007 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
| Dinner with Friends | The Great Debaters | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.2/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2007 |
| Length | 1h 36m | 2h 6m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Sasha Leigh Henry | Denzel Washington |
| Main cast | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell | Devyn A. Tyler, Jurnee Smollett, Forest Whitaker, Denzel Washington, John Heard |
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 Great Debaters
The true story of a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words to transform a group of underdog African-American college students into a historical powerhouse that took on the Harvard elite.
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