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Vanessa Kirby Opens Up About Her ‘Night Always Comes’ Netflix Film
Vanessa Kirby portrays Lynette, a woman facing financial hardship and housing insecurity as she tries to secure her family’s future in a gritty neo-noir drama adapted from Willy Vlautin’s novel.
- On August 15, 2025, Netflix released Night Always Comes, directed by Benjamin Caron and starring Vanessa Kirby, Randall Park, and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
- Facing sharply rising housing costs, Lynette lives in a dilapidated Portland home with her brother Kenny and mother Doreen, whose reneging on a last-chance loan shatters her plans.
- Starting at 6:12 p.m., Lynette embarks on a dusk-to-dawn quest to raise $25,000 by 9 a.m., with the timeline compressed into a 108-minute sequence.
- Turning to criminal means, Lynette pockets Scott’s key fob and takes off in his Mercedes after enlisting a safecracker to access a stash of cash and cocaine.
- Ultimately, Night Always Comes, set over a perilous Portland night, offers a sharp social critique of wealth obsession and gentrification.
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After her big-screen role as Sue Storm in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Vanessa Kirby returns with a very different project: the dramatic thriller Night Always Comes, which premieres today on Netflix. The film marks the actress's reunion with director Benjamin Caron, with whom she previously worked on the series The Crown.
‘Night Always Comes’ Review: Vanessa Kirby Gets Put Through the Wringer in Netflix’s Grim Neo-Noir Odyssey
Jennifer Jason Leigh, Julia Fox and Eli Roth also appear in Benjamin Caron’s thriller about a Portland woman fighting to claw out a future for herself and her family.
This beautiful film, dark, violent but also tender and touching, released this Friday, August 15, owes much to the presence of the British actress revealed by "The Crown".
‘Night Always Comes’ Review: Vanessa Kirby Is a Few Desperate Gambits Away From Homelessness in Gritty Netflix Drama
'The Crown' director Benjamin Caron helms a drama in which housing and financial straits force a Portland woman through increasingly risky schemes.
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