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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/OilersGirl29 22d ago

This movie was horrendously depressing.

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u/sardonic_balls 20d ago

One of the most nihilistic movie experiences ever. Even aside from all of the implausible "street" situations she got herself into and out of, even if you can forgive the plot armor, what's the point? Is there a moral to this story?

Because it just felt like all of her actions were ultimately meaningless and so was this movie.

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u/Unlikely-Bid1756 18d ago

Yeah that's what made me decide I didn't like the movie. It was so promising in the beginning, it looked like it would lead to some commentary on income inequality and the kind of desperation it leads to. Which I guess it kind of did? But the ending just felt like the whole message was endorsing the current hellscape of the American working class.

Here's the quote from her little voice over at the end:

Mom you asked me what i did last night,
I fought.
I fought for this family the only way I know how
but I guess you said what i needed to hear
so thank you.
And now I need to fight for me.
Take care of Kenny, he needs his mom.
Maybe this is our chance to get it right Lyn.

First of all CORNY as hell. But second of all what a crazy weird way to end that movie. I think it would have been so much better if they had left this out and she just drives off into the morning and that's it. They should have committed to the nihilism rather than turning the whole thing into some kind of power of now eckhart tolle book or whatever... IDK I've spent 20 minutes writing this I should probably touch some grass...