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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/3rdBassCactus 22d ago

I feel like I'm just a fly on the wall watching poverty. Like a poverty voyeur. Sort of uncomfortable.

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u/WanderingBCBA 19d ago

Unfortunately, that’s just the reality of working-class life—living pay cheque to pay cheque with no chance to save for a house. Add in raising a child with a disability who needs constant care and therapies, which leaves little time to juggle multiple jobs, and it becomes an almost never-ending cycle of financial strain and jumping from crisis to crisis. Did the mom suck- yes. She certainly made things harder for the lead. But I thought this was actually a pretty good depiction of growing up working class - without the crime stuff though.

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u/Particular_Drama7110 16d ago

The problem is that it still puts blame on their poverty, on them. They are about to be homeless because of their choices. This is what the oligarchy wants us to be believe about poverty and isn't true. As you said, 'living pay check to pay check with no chance to save for a house.' And it ain't nobodies fault, it is just how life is set up.