The premise of "One Night Only" is best described as "The Purge" for sex, unless you prefer Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" for one-night stands. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Associated Press.
As the movie announces right away: The U.S. government has passed a mandate that premarital sex is illegal except for one night a year. For the past three years, sex out of wedlock has been off limits except for an annual 12-hour reprieve. "It's been a lot," reads the opening title cards.
Such a concept, naturally, spawns a lot of questions. How could such a policy be policed? Where, exactly, are the lines drawn? And why hasn't everyone moved to Canada?
But "One Night Only," directed by Will Gluck ("Easy A," "Anyone But You"), is less interested in extrapolating the potentially very bizarre ramifications of its dystopian concept than it is selling a surprisingly tame romantic tale. "One Night Only" may be dressed up as a raunchy sex comedy, but it's a rom-com at heart, and a chaste one at that.
That makes "One Night Only" a disappointingly denuded comedy without the gumption to interrogate its satirical gimmick. And yet its charming leads, Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner, do enough to keep "One Night Only" pleasantly watchable.
The health of the rom-com is perpetually debated, but one of the genre's most abiding benefits is in giving young stars an uncluttered big-screen stage to shine on. Turner, the Bond-rumored British actor, has already appeared in one (also monogamy-fr
This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Associated Press.