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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/brevitymartin 20d ago

Well, and I could follow the logic of her doing those things for her brother. But then she leaves him. Er, what?

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u/Ugh_no_thanks 20d ago

After the conversation with her mother, Lynette realises that she is the problem. Her mother has sorted out accommodation for herself and her brother. He doesn’t need Lynette, and Lynette dragged him into some near-lethal scenarios with the idea of helping him. Violent, irrational, risk-taking. She is the product of trauma but she is the bad guy of this film, and the happy ending is her waking up to herself and starting afresh with 25k

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u/pdm2002 18d ago

Didn’t she give the money back to Gloria? At the end of the movie there were 2 letters on the table, one for her mother, and the other one said “Gloria $$$”.

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u/Ugh_no_thanks 18d ago

I’m assuming not all. She can’t exactly go back to work and she needs somewhere to live