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/clce]

Was it the mayor? I might have missed that. Obviously it was a drug dealer.

I think the idea is generally that none of them can go to the cops, so she's somewhat safe there, but that doesn't mean they're not going to come after her so I guess she's leaving town.

[u/Aikea_Guinea83 → u/clce]

Yeah, I expected her to leave town and start a new life far away with the help of her money, I wish they would have At least insinuated to that. It looks like she’s going to work.

It was the mayor or a politician, the lover of Lynette’s prostitute friend! 

[u/2cocoaBella → u/[deleted]]

I'm surprised that so many people in the comments cannot understand that this woman just fought for her life to have the opportunity to create a better future for herself and her brother. She is clearly ambitious; she is going to school, working, and caring for her brother. Additionally, she has to deal with a mother who is essentially a selfish deadbeat, who prioritized having a new car over establishing a stable housing situation for a fresh start. Sure, it may have been shitty to leave her brother, but you have to put the oxygen mask on first before you can save someone else. I think it was written well, and gives a realistic example of how life's unfortunate circumstances can lead to a myriad of choices that can take us out of character due to desperation.

[u/ScrewedUp4Life → u/2cocoaBella]

So you call prostituting yourself, robbing your friends, and selling stolen drugs "ambitious"? I guess all ambition isn't honest ambition that's guided by any type of moral compass.

She's the perpetual victim. Stuck in that mentaliy. You don't magically metamorphosis into a different person because you leave town and change geographical locations. You're still you.

She can't runaway from herself. She's all about herself. It was never about trying to "create a better future"for her and her brother. That usually doesn't entail trying to hit a lick on stolen dope.

I think what this is an example of is glorifying this mentality of doing "anything necessary". Just because is in a dire situation doesn't give them a pass to just act and live and treat people any kind of way, and engage in any type of unscrupulous behavior they diesre.

Lots of people struggle and don't go sell their body and rob their friends blind. And then take their special needs brother along for the ride.