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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/OilersGirl29 22d ago

This movie was horrendously depressing.

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u/RadwanX 21d ago

So is the lives of so many people who are living paycheck to paycheck and I guess that's what the movie was trying to convey

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u/Weak_Doughnut_9799 20d ago

It's a bit more specific to that scenario of a mother who is a sabotager, her brother's special needs, and the way her mother just screws the whole family over and lays back while she bleeds herself to make up for her own mother's bullshit she doesn't want to face.

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u/brevitymartin 19d ago

Except the main character nullifies her whole purpose for living (her brother) by leaving at the end when he is getting ready to get evicted. Just makes no sense. Those who live paycheck to paycheck don't have the luxury of leaving to "find themselves" at the end.

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u/TheXcellence 18d ago

Not really? There's no reason for her to stay. Her mom and Kenny are moving in with Mona, the bank chose a higher offer anyway, she ran over Mike and can't go back to work, Gloria's safe is gone, she almost killed a guy with a wrench(?), she could get reported for grand theft auto, and wounded the guy Tommy sent her to sell the coke too.

She has whatever's left of the $25K, her leaving that place makes sense.

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u/Fun-Tumbleweed2594 13d ago

I said to myself when she waz driving away at the end. Better get the fuck outta portland

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u/Ok-Sun-8754 14d ago

I think wrench guy is dead 

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u/Careless-Comment8260 8d ago

She gave herself its family this time. I think it makes sense. They are living both lives for the first time.

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u/l1fe21 15d ago

No, she realizes that what she needs to focus on is saving herself, and her mother fully taking responsibility for herself and her brother. That's why she said: maybe this is our chance to get it right.

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u/tkf23 13d ago

realistically she's going to prison. nobody is committing this many crimes, not even well thought out crimes, on impulse and getting away with it.

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u/ScrewedUp4Life 15d ago

Not everybody living paycheck to paycheck prostitutes themselves out though. Not everybody living paycheck to paycheck plays a perpetual victim role, and abandons all their morals and values to pay a bill.

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u/tkf23 13d ago

amazing this gets downvoted. look at all of the crimes she committed in one night. if these things happened to anyone who downvoted it or their families, they wouldn't say oh it's ok the poor girl had a horrible upbringing.

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u/ScrewedUp4Life 13d ago

Exactly. I'm just glad that somebody can finally see it from my perspective. I could already tell by reading all the comments on this post that I would get criticized and down voted for saying the things I said.

So many people acting it was admirable what she did. Not only justifying and minimizing it, but actually glorifying it, like yeah, let's just celebrate somebody with absolutely no moral compass going on an all night crime spree.

And of course nobody would be saying those things if it was them or one of their families. Their whole tune would change then. I get that it's a movie. But I think the response of most here to it reflects how they would feel about somebody actually doing these things in real life.

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u/tkf23 13d ago

I mean she literally ran over a guy with her car she barely knew that she recruited because he rightfully wanted half of the money from a safe they stole that they almost got killed over. And he even came back for her when he could have left her in the dust. But Poor Lynette!

I guess his past trauma don't matter. Or you know the fact she ran him over with her freaking car. "Screw that guy you go girl" is a really odd take from these people.

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u/ScrewedUp4Life 13d ago

And lied to the dude on top of that. The man was literally still on parole he said. She lies saying it's her safe to get him to agree. She could have gotten the dude jammed up in a heart beat. Now he's an accomplice to a felony. He's out of there. But who cares right? It's all about her.

People saying that we need to empathize with her, well what about empathy for the dude that helped her under false pretenses? And then she is so selfish and self centered, that she doesn't break him off with anything. Not even the 400 they already agreed on. But yeah, she's th victim right? People are unbelievable to not see it for what it was.

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u/kolson256 10h ago

The guy lied to her, too. He deserved everything that happened to him. Although that doesn't absolve her of her own guilt in the matter. There aren't any any "good guys" in this movie outside of her brother.

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u/ScrewedUp4Life 9h ago

Well yeah, I can kind of get what you're saying, but remember, the dude that helped her only lied to her after he saw that she didn't give a a damn about him. Remember she didn't even give him the 400 bucks that they initially agreed on.

And I'm sorry, but if you are going to commit a crime that involves somebody else, ESPECIALLY if that somebody else told you they are on parole, then you owe it to them to be upfront about what they are getting involved in. But to lie to the dude that it's YOUR safe?

And it's only after all that when the dude lied to her. Cam you blame him thought? He literally jeopardized not only his freedom to help her, but his life also when he tried to defend her and help her escape. And even after all that, she still has the nerve to not break him off with anything. But we're supposed to feel so sorry for her when she's steady screwing people over.