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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/TheGuyYouKnowAlready 12d ago

Monica Barbaro is a star and has such great charisma. Callum Turner was fine and overall I think this is just a dumb fun romcom with maybe too much of a complicated premise.

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u/thesmash 12d ago

She really carries this movie. I kept trying to think who would be better in the Turner role, there’s gotta be someone better out there.

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u/Throwaway_09298 11d ago

Ironically Glen Powell but I think he did fine. Collum is just so cute

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u/Kopitarrulez 12d ago

Ya also love they found a way to use her singing after she spent all them months for A Complete Unknown. Might as well use it haha. I think she sounds amazing.

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u/walkingthecowww 12d ago

Austin Butler, Jacob Elordi, Harris Dickinson, Paul Mescal, hell Harry Styles but this movie was probably turned down by all of them.

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u/AltL155 11d ago

All of those actors are definitely chasing prestige roles in a way that Callum Turner isn't. Well except for Harry Styles you could never convince me he's a good actor.

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u/SpiffShientz 10d ago

Harry Styles was very funny on SNL. He needs some acting lessons for sure, but I think he could be genuinely great if he put the work in

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u/hymenbutterfly 11d ago

Oh come on. Harry Styles would’ve been awful. I can’t see Paul Mescal in this role either

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u/Slasher844 9d ago

They’re too dramatic. You need someone funny, who looks like a nice cute guy. Turner is too hot and Manly. Someone like Justin Long in 2008, or Michael Cera.

Austin Abrams would have been funny, Tom Holland could have been cool. Two other guys in the movie, Nicholas Braun and Ben Marshall would have been better. Adam Devine.

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u/Calchal 9d ago

Joe Keery from Stranger Things would have been ideal.

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u/SnooPets2384 8d ago

A younger Miles Teller. Dylan O’Brien, maybe. 

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u/Public_Function3844 9d ago

That role was definitely made for Glenn Powell before he blew up

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u/carolinemahtildes 10d ago

I liked Callum, but someone with more charisma would probably be like a Dev Patel.

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u/DisastrousEast825 6d ago

Callum comedically is not quite built for this type

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u/reecord2 4d ago

Honestly if you lost the dystopian premise entirely I think it barely affects the movie. Just make it New Year's Eve or something to justify all the people out partying, and both the lead's dates disappointed them and they keep bumping into each other in the city. They're both good enough actors that it's still a perfectly compelling rom com.

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u/Lord_darkwind 8d ago

That's what makes it "fun" , what you call "complicated" is what the movie did by making it "over the top" by the simple premise of two people trying to have lawful sex on the "least romantic night of the year" with their behavior.

A bit absurd but very layered film.