The Dinner vs The Good Boy

The Good Boy has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 4.5/10 for The Dinner). The Good Boy is the shorter watch at 1h 50m compared with 2h . The Dinner is the older of the two (2017 against 2026). Both are drama, mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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The DinnerThe Good Boy
Audience score★ 4.5/10★ 7.8/10
Year20172026
Length2h 1h 50m
GenresDrama, Mystery, ThrillerDrama, Mystery, Thriller
Country––
DirectorOren MovermanJan Komasa
Main castAdepero Oduye, Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Chloë Sevigny, Steve CooganStephen Graham, Anson Boon, Andrea Riseborough, Savannah Steyn, Jessica Johnson

Synopsis

The Dinner

Two brothers and their wives meet up at a haute-cuisine restaurant to discuss what to do about a horrific crime that their sons committed together. As the quartet debate their options, the conversation reopens old wounds between the siblings.

The Good Boy

Tommy, a volatile 19-year-old, revels in drugs, parties and violence. After getting separated from his friends on a drunken bender, he is abducted by a shadowy figure. He wakes to find himself imprisoned in the basement of a remote Yorkshire house, inhabited by a very strange family. But what unfolds is not what he could possibly expect.

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