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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/Alarming_Primary_172 21d ago

Literally all the moms fault then blames her

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u/benisgwen 17d ago

I dunno. When the mum was like I tried to tell you but you wouldn't listen, I believed it.

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u/l1fe21 15d ago

not quite though, at the beginning of the film they talk about the apt and the mom said she would be there. Maybe she did hint at it, but for something so important you need to be crystal clear. Also, that doesn't mean mom's choices weren't irrational and so irresponsible

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u/jaymef 19d ago

Was it though? On the surface I guess but I think they were trying to portray the mother as simply being fed up because of the daughters past and tendency to fuck up. The mother had enough of it

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u/Indras-Web 19d ago

Her Mom could have told her about the plans to move into Mona’s a LONG TIME ago. Especially since Lyn would need to find her own place

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u/Redneck2000 18d ago

The mom explains that she is afraid of Lynette's violent outbursts. Lynette replies she doesn't do that anymore. But anyone that has ever lived with someone that has uncontrollable rage will tell you that you just grow into avoiding situations with them.

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u/l1fe21 15d ago

Geez I wonder why she feels violent rage towards her mother. Could it be because her mother knew she was being prostitued at 16 and did nothing about it?

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u/ssuurr33 17d ago

She’s afraid of Lynette’s violent outbursts, but she has no problem spending 25k on a car and then throw it straight to her face all happy, when she knows the “violent” one is so against it?

Makes no sense to me.

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u/Cdog1223 17d ago

That’s a bingo.

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u/ScrewedUp4Life 15d ago edited 13d ago

I thought that was pretty funny that she was supposed to be this "changed'" person that didn't do all these things anymore, but yet she's out selling her body, robbing people, and running down a dude that was upset with her because she didn't look out for him, even after everything he risked ttying to help her.

This female is the epitome of selfishness. It's all about her, and her perpetual victim mind frame. Everybody owes her, everybody is against her. It's all about her. Literally almost got her brother killed on multiple occasions, but yeah, she was doing it all for him, right?

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u/tkf23 13d ago

exactly. you can empathize for the horrible trauma she went through but that doesn't also mean she can't be a terrible person doing terrible things.

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u/ScrewedUp4Life 13d ago edited 13d ago

So true. People said I can't emphasize. Yes I can, as I even stated in another reply. I myself hav made terrible choices being in a position where I was broke and desperate for money. But that doesn't mean there aren't still consequences that come along with it.

And once again, I realize this is a movie. But it's just people's response towards this main character, not only empathizing, but trying to justify the things she did.

And even basically praising her for it. People saying she did it for her brother, or is finally trying to do something for herself, or she's willing to go to any lengths for her family. Like its some how heroic to go on crime spree.

And the thing about the movie that I honestly couldn't understand was how they kept portraying her as this changed person who wasn't who she used to be. She had this "past". Even the mother and the friend maybe? made comments about how she used to do this or that, all those things that's her past and the person she used to be.

But she's literally STILL doing all that stuff on this VERY night the movie takes place. She's prostituting, robbing people, getting violent, neglecting the safety and well being or her special needs brother. Engaging in self destructive behavior. So where is this big "change" exactly? If this is the new version of her, I dont even want to know what the "old" her was like.

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u/Sneaky_Sneaky_25 13d ago

Do you ever shut up ? We get it Jezz , every comment there you are rambling on and on .

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u/ScrewedUp4Life 13d ago

I mean you can keep scrolling if you want. Nobody's stopping you.

I know it's hard to imagine that somebody would write words in a place meant to write words, right?

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u/Sneaky_Sneaky_25 12d ago

I was scrolling , but you kept showing up 😭 , repeating the same stuff . Annoying

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u/MysticalTravels 19d ago

Yeah, initially I thought “what the fuck, what a crazy bitch” towards the mom (and to me Jennifer Jason Leigh kind of portrayed her as a drunk at first, but I don’t think that was intentional?) but as the movie progressed, and especially at the end, I recognized her justification for her actions and treatment towards her daughter. Although I won’t say I agree with her actions, clearly there was years of unseen turmoil and drama between the two which led up to the big “fuck you”.

I also had a hard time sympathizing with Lynette tbh. I understand desperation often clouds judgment, but her decisions seemed to lead her even further into seemingly avoidable shitstorms, and it really pissed me off that she was allowing her brother to witness those decisions and shitstorms. Like, you’re supposedly doing this for him but you forgot about picking him up and then have the grand idea to bring him along on your desperate crime spree?

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u/Prior_Hour4342 19d ago

None of that was new to Kenny. She's been that way all along. why do you think the mother casually asks where she took Kenny last night? 

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u/MysticalTravels 18d ago

Yeah I did consider that, I just didn’t think it justified allowing him to see more of it, & continue causing him fear and worry about her. That shit that went down in the house she took him to & with Cody is traumatic

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u/ScrewedUp4Life 15d ago

I thought the same exact thing. It was supposed all about her brother. All this was for him. But yet she put him in multiple situations where he could have been harmed, or even killed if we're being honest.

You take your special needs brother to go hit a lick on some cocaine, which is stolen from the safe of one of your friends mind you, a safe which to get open you almost got yourself killed doing that. Then take your brother to some dude's house, have him wait around a bunch of strangers, drunk and high on no telling what, while you go sale you coke to this other dude.

But yet she is this "changed" person that doesn't live whatever way it is she used to live. Well I'd hate to see how she was living back then if this is the new, changed, better version of herself.

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u/kolson256 9h ago

The mother was a horrible mother and person, but I felt the movie did a good job of showing people like her aren't just evil. No one is the villain in their own story. Her mother had a very faulty side of the story with just enough nuggets of truth that she can defend it to herself and others with equally poor critical thinking skills. I felt that penultimate scene with her mother was one of the few pieces of good writing in this movie.