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Dinner with Friends (2025)

Dinner with Friends poster
Directed by
Sasha Leigh Henry
Genre
drama film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 36m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Eight longtime friends in their mid-30s gather for regular dinners to keep their relationships strong despite outside stresses. The film watches their connections strain as life pulls them in different directions.

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What happens

Dinner with Friends is a Canadian drama film, directed by Sasha Leigh Henry and released in 2025. Her full-length directorial debut, the film centres on a group of eight longtime friends who are now in their mid-30s, and who regularly meet for dinner in an attempt to hold onto their connections in the face of external pressures that seem to be pulling them apart. Shot on a micro-budget, the film's cast includes Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell, Alex Spencer, Rakhee Morzaria, Michael Ayres and Leighton Alexander Williams. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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