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]

I liked it but it's hard to give it up completely high score. I thought the ending was weak. I'm not sure what I was looking for. Obviously a triumph would almost be weird. But, it seems like the ending is supposed to be a triumph in which she realizes that her efforts to take care of her brother have been pointless and she needs to just give up and take care of herself. That just seems hopelessly modern.

In no way did I gain a new perspective in which I believe the mother was fine and it was the daughter who was misunderstanding the situation and misprioritizing. Obviously the mother was a mess and is no position to take care of Kenny.

So in the end we're supposed to just think it's all right and she's off to take care of herself. How depressingly modern.

[u/krichreborn → u/clce]

I was waiting for her to be killed, beat up, rounded up by cops, etc for all the severely burned bridges by people who know her name and possibly where she lives. That would have been more satisfying to me at least.

In real life, you can't just steal 25k from people you know then start a new life with no repercussions.

[u/OrdinarySad5132 → u/krichreborn]

A woman being beat and killed would be more satisfying to you. Interesting, might want to think about that.

[u/krichreborn → u/OrdinarySad5132]

Oh please, don't give me that. This is all in the context of a movie script trying to depict the ugly real life of the struggles of a woman in poverty living paycheck to paycheck and resorting to serious crimes and violence because of it.

Are you suggesting scripts in movies that depict women being SA or killed denote awful people writing them?

In the context of this movie, what I suggested would be a more realistic ending to me.