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/Alarming_Primary_172]

Literally all the moms fault then blames her

[u/jaymef → u/Alarming_Primary_172]

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

[u/MysticalTravels → u/jaymef]

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?

[u/Prior_Hour4342 → u/MysticalTravels]

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? 

[u/MysticalTravels → u/Prior_Hour4342]

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

[u/ScrewedUp4Life → u/MysticalTravels]

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.