Dinner with Friends vs Vera Drake
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.2/10 for Vera Drake). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 2h 5m. Vera Drake is the older of the two (2004 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Dinner with Friends
Vera Drake| Dinner with Friends | Vera Drake | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.2/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2004 |
| Length | 1h 36m | 2h 5m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Sasha Leigh Henry | Mike Leigh |
| Main cast | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell | Lesley Manville, Eddie Marsan, Imelda Staunton, Ruth Sheen, Adrian Scarborough |
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…
Vera Drake
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
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