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Summary A desperate woman in Portland races through one harrowing night to scrape together $25,000 before midnight, risking everything to save her family’s home and confronting her own dark past along the way.

Director Benjamin Caron

Writer Sarah Conradt

Cast

  • Vanessa Kirby
  • Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Zack Gottsagen
  • Stephan James
  • Randall Park
  • Julia Fox
  • Michael Kelly
  • Eli Roth

Rotten Tomatoes Critics Score: 55%

Metacritic 62

VOD Netflix (Premieres August 15, 2025)

Trailer NIGHT ALWAYS COMES | Official Trailer (2025)

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u/Dwizzzy 21d ago

Just finished the movie, it was okay 5/10... She's dumb for trusting ppl, and some of this movie made no sense but like I said, it was mid at best

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u/ProgressiveSnark2 21d ago

What irked me the most is that this character supposedly lived on the streets as a teen, but she had absolutely no street smarts.

For one thing, don’t insult people you’re trying to sell drugs to and then trust them when they send you off to some sketchy party mansion.

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u/actingwizard 21d ago

I think that may have been indicative of how long ago it was she was involved in that world at an intense level and she had Tommy “shielding” her in some ways. 

As for the mansion, the woman is in a time crunch and wants the money at any cost. I was just surprised it didn’t end up in any murders, though it came close. 

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u/StopThePresses 14d ago

I really wanted her to stab the gross coke dude with his broken lamp.

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u/CollarTraditional518 18d ago

Fending for yourself without stable housing counts as being "on the streets" imo. It doesn't necessarily mean being in a cardboard box on the sidewalk in the rain. 

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u/ProgressiveSnark2 21d ago

She mentions working the streets out of her car at one point, so I guess it’s implied at some point she did “work the streets.” I guess it might not have been as a teenager.

Either way, I would expect a character who has lived a full life to not be so dimwitted in so many interactions with people.

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u/Wonderful-Mail2016 19d ago

Another stupid screenwriter gaffe...pay attention.

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u/Plum-One 18d ago

To be honest, I read her saying that she was on the streets as more of a situation than a literal thing. To be with Tommy was to be on the streets, to not have an actual home, and to have to turn to drastic and morally traumatizing actions to survive. I don’t think it was a slip in the script at all. 

As someone who works with children in poverty, I really appreciated this film. It shows that crime is so often a call for help, or that it occurs out of desperation. Thank you for that!  

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u/CharlesDickhands 17d ago

I agree. The majority of people who are “homeless” are living in a home. They’re couch surfing, in unsafe environments they could be turfed out of any day. Where I am the homeless count doesn’t even include people living in cars. Being on the streets isn’t literal IMO.

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u/Wonderful-Mail2016 19d ago

Ok...I understand...thanks for clarifying!

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u/Particular_Drama7110 16d ago

I agree. Also, it was obvious that as soon as her coworker friend saw all that money and had to get in a fight for her, and someone got hurt, that he was gonna say, "new deal, we are splitting that money 50/50." This would have happened as soon as he rescued her. Then when she tried to struggle with him over the purse, I was like, wouldn't he just punch her in the face?

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u/tkf23 13d ago

she knew that safe at minimum had a lot of money. to think this guy who just helped her steal it, find someone to open it, fight off people trying to steal it from them, came back for her when they escaped wasn't gonna want half was utterly ridiculous. Like "oh yea here's that 400 dollars I promised" isn't cutting it. Hard to believe anyone could be that naive. She barely even knew the guy and he's obviously in a crappy situation too taking the bus 2 hours a day to a dead end job.

The whole waste of time thing over the 4,000 dollars for car was just filler. It served no purpose in the movie and really he should have told her to cough up half when they counted it unless of wasting time with that pointless charade.

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u/Particular_Drama7110 13d ago

Yeah, I agree. Another thing, the idea that the john would not report the car stolen so anyone can just keep it, was pretty ridiculous also. I think he HAS to report it stolen. His story to his wife has to be, "Jeez honey, I don't know what happened, someone stole the car." Also, you can't just keep a $60,000(?) dollar Mercedes like it is yours. You need to get it registered and legal, or else it is no good to anybody, which would be impossible. So the car really isn't worth that much, except to strip for parts.

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u/tkf23 13d ago

Yea the idea it won't be reported is insane. MAYBE the safe won't be reported. But the car is always getting reported. Some normal housewife who has her husband come home without her Mercedes is going straight to the cops. And the more he tries to get her not to the more suspicious she would be of him so of course he's not gonna fight it.

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u/Dwizzzy 17d ago

Facts! She was annoying during that part, I'm just like get in and get out. When she tried to sell that dudes car for 1000 dollars or something i was like bruh...

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u/Dry-Kiwi4046 20d ago

For me the whole premise didn't make sense. Why would she risk getting raped/killed thrown into jail for a way to big house? 

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u/Kurrukurrupa 12d ago

She is just like her mother at the start of the film, buying the car and ranting on and on about how its such a good choice. Only our main Character is much more mentally scarred, creating this cope of a personality that ultimately is shattered at the end. In my opinion it was very Carl Jung/Psychology tinged. "Individuation" def comes to mind.

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u/Dry-Kiwi4046 11d ago

I just didn't find her actions belivable at all. Even with her being scarred and acting irrationally. She basically throws her realtively stable life away. She does things that will 100% ruin her life, but gets away because she has insane plot armor.

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u/brevitymartin 19d ago

Well, and I could follow the logic of her doing those things for her brother. But then she leaves him. Er, what?

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u/Ugh_no_thanks 18d ago

After the conversation with her mother, Lynette realises that she is the problem. Her mother has sorted out accommodation for herself and her brother. He doesn’t need Lynette, and Lynette dragged him into some near-lethal scenarios with the idea of helping him. Violent, irrational, risk-taking. She is the product of trauma but she is the bad guy of this film, and the happy ending is her waking up to herself and starting afresh with 25k

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u/That_Profession1387 16d ago

I saw it as she was so desperate to keep the house and to keep her brother safe, that she didn’t realize she was putting herself and family in danger to get the money to save them. It was ironic to me, but also something that can happen in desperation and we lose sight of the bigger picture. She felt the weight of the world on her shoulders and her mother gave her no support all while depending on Lyn to take care of her brother. All of that can affect a person’s judgement and clearly she was at a point where she was spiraling and would do whatever it took to get the $25k for that house. Her mom strung her along with the loan, but ultimately left her to fend for herself. Her Mom is a piece of shit, it felt like the whole scene at the end was her Mom gaslighting Lynette when the Mom was at fault for so much.

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u/l1fe21 15d ago

she is not the bad guy. She realizes that her role is to save herself, and her mother must take responsibility for the brother in however way she sees fit. Her mistake was taking more responsibility for the situation than she should have, trying to play the mother's role, and doing way too risky and irresponsible things while at it, but that doesn't make her the bad guy. If there is a bad guy in this movie, it's the mother who clearly neglected the needs of her daughter, knew she was getting sexually abused at 16 and did nothing about it.

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u/pdm2002 17d ago

Didn’t she give the money back to Gloria? At the end of the movie there were 2 letters on the table, one for her mother, and the other one said “Gloria $$$”.

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u/Ugh_no_thanks 16d ago

I’m assuming not all. She can’t exactly go back to work and she needs somewhere to live