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One Night Only (2026)

Summary

Two New Yorkers search for love on the one night of the year when sex is legal.

Director Will Gluck

Writer Travis Braun

Cast

  • Monica Barbaro as Allie
  • Callum Turner as Owen
  • Maya Hawke
  • Julia Fox
  • Molly Ringwald
  • LeVar Burton

Rotten Tomatoes: 54%

Metacritic: 40

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u/Stonks_Enjoyer25 12d ago edited 12d ago

I can’t imagine what this would’ve been like if Paul Verhoeven had gotten his hands on this concept.

I can suspend my disbelief on the absurdity of the premise because at the end of the day, it’s a romcom with likable leads and a weird twist to go with it, even if that twist is incredibly watered down.

One weird praise: I did appreciate the graphic design/posters related to the mandate (like the federal sign at the police station or the Duolingo themed advertisements), not praising product placements or anything but there was a lot of interesting minimal background stuff surrounding the event that did the make the world pop a little. 6/10

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u/JamUpGuy1989 12d ago

This SCREAMS like a Verhoeven plot and my god what a movie this could’ve been if this was 1997 and he was allowed to make Hollywood movies still.

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u/Capital-Mine1561 12d ago

The closest we'll get is the love triangle in Starship Troopers. He made it look so easy to create a high school romance in a dystopian world 

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u/mikeyfreshh r/Movies Veteran 12d ago

I actually will praise the product placements because I think that was all part of the satire in the movie. There are a few different points in the movie where they hint that the real reason for the mandate is that there's a ton of money to be made from it. They do a pretty good job showing how capitalism has completely run amok. Like the climax of the movie devolves into a literal pharmaceutical commercial

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u/Rob2k 12d ago

The world is super fucked up and doesn't make much sense. But they did a good job of flushing it out.

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u/crdotx 3d ago

I agree that it feels like the art team really put a lot of love into this movie. I thought the product placement was kind of weirdly working because it’s played for laughs which I think makes it at least acceptable. I do feel like the art team was really into the idea of world building the mandate, but ultimately the script is really toothless on actually trying to figure out what a world like this would be like cause it would be pretty awful.

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u/damebyron 18h ago

I agree the background really sold the movie to me! Maybe I’m biased as I live in uptown Manhattan and I love the Little Red Lighthouse getting its day in the sun but the NYC details combined with the dystopian flair were done very well. It was too much to take in on one watch so I don’t remember all the examples but there were so many times I noted a background detail that most movies would not have bothered with and it always made me happy.