Dinner with Friends vs This Boy's Life
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.1/10 for This Boy's Life). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 55m. This Boy's Life is the older of the two (1993 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
| Dinner with Friends | This Boy's Life | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.1/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 1993 |
| Length | 1h 36m | 1h 55m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Sasha Leigh Henry | Michael Caton-Jones |
| Main cast | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell | Carla Gugino, Robert De Niro, Chris Cooper, Leonardo DiCaprio, Eliza Dushku |
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…
This Boy's Life
When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polite man. Things go south when the man turns out to be abusive, endangering their lives. As the mother struggles to maintain hope in an impossible situation, the son has plans to escape.
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