Dinner with Friends vs The Straight Story
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.7/10 for The Straight Story). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 52m. The Straight Story is the older of the two (1999 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Dinner with Friends
The Straight Story| Dinner with Friends | The Straight Story | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.7/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 1999 |
| Length | 1h 36m | 1h 52m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Sasha Leigh Henry | David Lynch |
| Main cast | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell | Sissy Spacek, Richard Farnsworth, Jack Walsh, Jane Galloway Heitz, Joseph A. Carpenter |
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 Straight Story
A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and no driver's license. Then he hits on the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.
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