Dinner with Friends vs The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.8/10 for The Perks of Being a Wallflower). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 43m. The Perks of Being a Wallflower is the older of the two (2012 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Dinner with Friends posterDinner with Friends2025 VS The Perks of Being a Wallflower posterThe Perks of Being a Wallflower2012
Dinner with FriendsThe Perks of Being a Wallflower
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 7.8/10
Year20252012
Length1h 36m1h 43m
GenresDramaDrama
CountryCanada–
DirectorSasha Leigh HenryStephen Chbosky
Main castTattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew BushellMae Whitman, Nicholas Braun, Logan Lerman, Melanie Lynskey, Dylan McDermott

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 Perks of Being a Wallflower

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, helping him discover the joys of friendship, music and love.

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