Night Always Comes

Night Always Comes feels like a conscious throwback to Kirby’s more pared-back projects, with the actor leading this scuzzy nocturnal thriller. Directed by Benjamin Caron (Andor, The Crown), the film is set predominantly over a single night in a Pacific Northwest neighbourhood. After being let down by her unpredictable mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh), and with the threat of being separated from her disabled brother looming, Lynette goes to increasingly extreme lengths to try and save her home.

“Night Always Comes” is a movie that will make nearly everyone feel seen, in the most uncomfortable way. Vanessa Kirby stars as Lynette, who shares a little house in Portland with her mother Doreen (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and her only brother, Kenny (Zach Robin Gottsagen), a thirty-something who has Down syndrome and can’t live alone. The story spans 24 perilous hours in Lynette’s life. The owner is selling the house that Lynette, Doreen, and Kenny have been renting. Lynette is determined to buy the house so they won’t have to move again, but she has no money and bad credit, so her mom will have to co-sign the deed and provide a $25,000 down payment. Doreen misses the meeting because she saw a “Mazda madness” sale on the way and decided to spend the down payment on a new vehicle instead, to “do something nice for myself for a change.” Lynette is warned told she can still have the house if she can raise $25,000 by the following morning and make sure her mom shows up. But if she fails, the place will be sold to someone else.