Dinner with Friends vs The Normal Heart
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.7/10 for The Normal Heart). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 2h 12m. The Normal Heart is the older of the two (2014 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
| Dinner with Friends | The Normal Heart | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.7/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2014 |
| Length | 1h 36m | 2h 12m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Sasha Leigh Henry | Ryan Murphy |
| Main cast | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell | Jonathan Groff, Jim Parsons, Corey Stoll, Matt Bomer, Taylor Kitsch |
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 Normal Heart
The story of the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the burgeoning epidemic to a city and nation in denial.
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