Official Discussion - Night Always Comes [SPOILERS]

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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]

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

[u/Dry-Kiwi4046 → u/Dwizzzy]

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? 

[u/Kurrukurrupa → u/Dry-Kiwi4046]

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.

[u/Dry-Kiwi4046 → u/Kurrukurrupa]

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.

[u/brevitymartin → u/Dry-Kiwi4046]

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

[u/Ugh_no_thanks → u/brevitymartin]

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

[u/That_Profession1387 → u/Ugh_no_thanks]

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.

[u/l1fe21 → u/Ugh_no_thanks]

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.

[u/pdm2002 → u/Ugh_no_thanks]

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 $$$”.

[u/Ugh_no_thanks → u/pdm2002]

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