Dinner with Friends vs The Optimist
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7/10 for The Optimist). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 42m. The Optimist is the older of the two (2023 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Dinner with Friends
The Optimist| Dinner with Friends | The Optimist | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.0/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2023 |
| Length | 1h 36m | 1h 42m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Sasha Leigh Henry | Finn Taylor |
| Main cast | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell | Stephen Lang, Robin Weigert, Elsie Fisher, Luke David Blumm, Stephanie Heiner |
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 Optimist
Herbert Heller keeps his experience as a teenage boy surviving in Auschwitz hidden from his family. Until he meets Abby, a young teenager whose own brush with pain and death inspires him to open up as well, leading the two of them to exchange their stories as a meaningful and healing friendship is born.
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