One Night Only

"12 hours can change everything."

2026 1h 43m EN

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6.4

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★6.4TMDB · 182

RomanceComedy

Synopsis

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Two love-starved strangers crash into each other on the one night of the year when single people are allowed to have sex.

“12 hours can change everything.”

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Cast

Monica Barbaro
Allie
Callum Turner
Owen
Maya Hawke
Malika
King Princess
Jacinta
Molly Ringwald
Linda
LeVar Burton
Rick
Charlie Gillespie
Ezra Strong
Quintessa Swindell
Arya

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Will Gluck
Writers: Travis Braun, Grant Shaffer
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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1 / 8

ERA

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Released this year — you're seeing it while it's still in the cultural conversation.

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2 / 8

CAST

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204+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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3 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Will Gluck, shot by Yaron Orbach. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Este Haim. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Tia Nolan shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

CAST

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Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner and Maya Hawke carry the top of the cast.

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7 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "12 hours can change everything.".

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt37853455 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Will Gluck directs. Yaron Orbach behind the camera. Este Haim scores. Tia Nolan cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Released this year — you're seeing it while it's still in the cultural conversation.
2204+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
3Directed by Will Gluck, shot by Yaron Orbach. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Este Haim. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Tia Nolan shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner and Maya Hawke carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "12 hours can change everything.".
8IMDB entry: tt37853455 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Classified under 11 themes, including "new york city", "romcom", "meet cute", "searching for love".

The technical file

Cinematography: Yaron Orbach
Original score: Este Haim
Editing: Tia Nolan
Production design: Scott Kuzio
Costume design: Jacqueline Oknaian Demeterio
Makeup / hair: Susan Reilly LeHane
VFX supervisor: Dulany Foster IV
Sound: Tateum Kohut
Stunt coordinator: Dean Neistat
Runtime: 103 min · 1h 43m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $25,000,000
Box office: $25,112,730
Return: 100% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: One Night Only (2026)

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Leno2026-07-16
The movie follows the premise that a regulation prevents sex for unmarried folks during the whole year except a 12h period that became a big night where people go out to accomplish all their fantasies. The story follows Ellie, who doesn't want an one night stand and has the seemingly impossible task of finding something meaningful in this night, and Owen, who was just reject by his girlfriend who wanted to "explore" someone else. They keep coincidentally meeting throughout their 12h of misadventures. Not exactly my type of movies but the jokes work well and the plot is good. There is a lot of care in the background of the scenes to add in small jokes related to the "only one night" topic. Good movie overall
Manuel São Bento2026-08-30
★ 6/10
Check out my full review @ https://www.manuelsbento.com/one-night-only-2026-monica-barbaro-delivers-a-career-best-performance-in-a-charming-held-back-rom-com/ Rating: B- Will Gluck's dystopian rom-com works better as a showcase for its leads than as commentary on its own premise, and that's fine by me. Monica Barbaro delivers a career-best performance, and contrary to some of the backlash, her chemistry with Callum Turner is one of the film's real strengths, not a weak spot. Clever soundtrack choices set the tone, though an overstuffed first act and a few distracting subplots keep this from being more than a fun little watch.
CinemaSerf2026-09-06
★ 6/10
After decades of free love, the US government has decided that unless you are actually married then you have to keep it in your pants. They've even designed a special chip that will detect whether or not you get up to any horizontal jogging, so there's no cheating the system - except for one twelve hour period each year when condoms are like gold dust. "Owen" (Callum Turner) runs his own pizza place and has his own girlfriend, so cruising the streets isn't on his to-do-list tonight. "Allie" (Monica Barbaro), on the other hand, has got herself all dolled-up and is planning on hitting the town with her friend and not copping-off with the first bloke with a pulse she meets in the toilet queue. Unfortunately, neither of their evenings go exactly to plan and as it unfolds they repeatedly encounter each other after a series of bizarre shenanigans that involve grand theft, burglary - and who knew bubble wrap could be a sex toy? Now there so many holes in this plot that it's almost not worth bothering about at all - instead, perhaps, it's just an opportunity to watch eye-candy Turner (most of him) and Barbaro dance around each other before a denouement that you could see from space with your eyes welded shut. The scenarios are borderline slapstick and for the most part don't really impress - although they do at times remind us that when our hormones are a-raging, we don't always use our brains before embarking into the bushes or onto a motor bike or on a drinking binge. I still struggle to understand why British actors are cast and then forced to adopt Yankee accents - but Turner does as well enough with that as he does spinning pizza dough over his head and together the pair provide us with something cheesy and forgettable, but watchable on the telly at Christmas.