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One Night Only

RomanceComedy

Directed by Will Gluck

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

164 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works

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One Night Only is a 2026 romance comedy film, directed by Will Gluck, starring Monica Barbaro, Callum Turner and Maya Hawke.

  • 131 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews
  • posts span Sep 26, 2025 to Nov 4, 2026

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Critics, per Wikipedia

The film made $5.5 million in its opening weekend, finishing in third place. The figure was "below expectations", with Erik Childress of Rotten Tomatoes saying: "For all the cries of the death of comedies in theaters, how many will lament when one as poorly reviewed as One Night Only is one of the rare entries into the genre we are getting this year... It opened to… Less than Jackass: Best and Last. Less than Universal's You, Me & Tuscany. Less than The Breadwinner. Less than even Melania." The film failed to rebound in its second weekend, falling 64% to $2 million. Its four-week theatrical run concluded with total domestic earnings of $11.51 million. On the review aggregator website Rotten…

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  • 🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 5, 2026

    "If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die. Death with dignity is surely a better fate for the genre than fascist capitulation." Zero stars for this piece of shit movie. My review of ONE NIGHT ONLY for @ebertvoices.bsky.social

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  • Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 11, 2026

    I’m going to see One Night Only tomorrow and if “Sex Laws” by Beck isn’t playing for 50% of the movie at least I’ll punch a hole in the screen!

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  • Sidewalk Film @sidewalkfilm.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 26, 2025

    THE ONION PRESENTS: A HISTORIC CINEMATIC NIGHT OF FILM AT THE MOVIES - playing ONE NIGHT ONLY October 2 at 9:30pm.

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  • Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 20, 2026

    I have seen the trailer for the movie One Night Only, and it seems like it's about some kind of Sex Purge, but like...that can't be right?

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  • Diogeneez Nutz @hughjassle.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 5, 2026

    Since it isn't stated anywhere in this thread yet, the movie is called One Night Only.

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Aug 8, 2026

    ‘ONE NIGHT ONLY’ director Will Gluck says they cut out “so much nudity” from the film because he thinks audiences dislike sex on screen. “Whenever people now see nudity or very adult situations in a big theater, they get uncomfortable.” (Source: variety.com/2026/film/fe...)

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Apr 28, 2026

    First look at ‘ONE NIGHT ONLY’, starring Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro. The film is a rom-com version of ‘The Purge’ where premarital sex is outlawed except for one night every year. In theaters on August 7.

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  • Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 8, 2026

    i'm sorry, there's only solution to ONE NIGHT ONLY discourse: we all need to go see the movie so it makes so much money that they're forced to do a ONE NIGHT ONLY extended universe, including a gritty ONE NIGHT ONLY: ORIGINS limited series on hulu

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  • Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 15, 2026

    I still can’t get over the fact that the pitch for that movie One Night Only is basically what if living in a christo-fascist sexually controlling regime was a romcom? Feels like a movie only straight white people could make. But maybe it’ll be more subversive than the trailers appear.

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Aug 5, 2026

    ‘ONE NIGHT ONLY’, starring Monica Barbaro & Callum Turner, debuts at 54% on Rotten Tomatoes. • The film is a rom-com version of ‘The Purge’ where premarital sex is outlawed except for one night every year. Read our review: bit.ly/OneNightDF

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  • Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 7, 2026

    My main problem with the movie One Night Only is that every time a mention of it crosses my vision, I am forced to sing One Night Only from Dreamgirls, out loud

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  • Monica Castillo @mcastimovies.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 5, 2026

    “We spent an entire runtime watching New York City turned upside-down under ridiculous circumstances for the moral of the story to be ‘yeah, you should wait.’ Does every ticket come with a purity ring?” I reviewed ONE NIGHT ONLY,which feels retro and not in a cute way www.avclub.com/one-night-on...

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Apr 29, 2026

    First trailer for ‘ONE NIGHT ONLY’, starring Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner. The film is a rom-com version of ‘The Purge’ where premarital sex is outlawed except for one night every year. In theaters on August 7.

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Aug 4, 2026

    Exclusive clip for ‘ONE NIGHT ONLY’, starring Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner. The film is a rom-com version of ‘The Purge’ where premarital sex is outlawed except for one night every year. In theaters this Friday.

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  • Dial Liz-Z for Zombie (Lizzy Rose Oliver - Voice Actress) @lizzyrosevo.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 5, 2026

    I had to see if I could read this without breaking into laughter. So for shits and giggles, here's a dramatic reading of the Wikipedia synopsis for the movie "One Night Only" AKA-The Sex Purge Movie.

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Aug 7, 2026

    ‘ONE NIGHT ONLY’, starring Monica Barbaro & Callum Turner, is now playing in theaters. • The film is a rom-com version of ‘The Purge’ where premarital sex is outlawed except for one night every year. Read our review: bit.ly/OneNightDF

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  • I. L. Prentiss @forginganewpath.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 31, 2026

    #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky #letterboxdFriday boxd.it/8FVgb Trending in the wrong direction this week. Sea Beast for Movie night; The Fifth Element on the big screen was a treat; One Night Only was a really pleasant surprise and would be a great date movie. Spidey tonight!

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  • Sean Fennessey @seanfennessey.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 31, 2026

    August on @TheBigPic* 8/4 The Canadian Movie Draft 8/7 ONE NIGHT ONLY + The 21st Century Romcom Canon 8/11 Sean AMA Mailbag 8/14 THE END OF OAK STREET 8/18 TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA 8/21 TONY 8/25 The Flops Movie Draft 8/28 THE DOG STARS + Ridley Scott Rankings *Subject to change

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Apr 16, 2026

    The first teaser for ‘ONE NIGHT ONLY’, Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner, was shown at CinemaCon. The film follows 2 people trying to find love in a world where premarital sex is only legal for one day.

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  • Mathew Buck @filmbrainbmb.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 8, 2026

    In addition to being potentially accidentally fascist, the sex purge movie One Night Only is also deliberately chaste, apparently. Also, Will Gluck directed Friends with Benefits, so what happened in the last 15 years? variety.com/2026/film/fe...

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  • Last Will and Testament Moss @williammoss.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 6, 2026

    This is very funny! But also, given the rich history of sex and relationship controls in dystopian fiction, and the current reactionary moment, there was probably a genuinely interesting and even seditious film to be made on the One Night Only premise, and they somehow failed to make it.

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  • Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 6, 2026

    I have an idea for a movie: a comedy (a rom-com, even!) about the making of ONE NIGHT ONLY. A bunch of people took financial and/or career risks to make this happen, and we need to see that story.

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  • Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 9, 2026

    I’m hoping that the trades drop a big story about the making of “One Night Only”, the kind of post-mortem autopsy that runs when a movie designed to be a big hit bombs.

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  • Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 10, 2026

    Super Troopers 3 was never going to be a smash hit. One Night Only was a ribald sex comedy with no nudity in it because “it didn’t test well” meanwhile this movie didn’t DO well

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  • Amy Koto, TV Fanatic Girl @tvfanaticgirl.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 20, 2026

    Movie Of The Day... One Night Only 🍿🎥💋

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  • The Man of Astoria @depechejoe.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 23, 2026

    That One Night Only movie, where the director was doing interviews justifying the lack of sex in his movie about the Purge but for sex with “we have all this consumer data about how audiences don’t like it,” is what happens when you stop making movies about yourself

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  • Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 8, 2026

    Wait that One Night Only movie only has one couple in it?!

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  • Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 7, 2026

    WAITTTTTTT This is about One Night Only? The movie whose posters look like it was made with jailbroke Hallmark LLM? It's plastered all over Los Angeles and could not look more boring.

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  • TurboZha @turbozha.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 6, 2026

    My mom had on NBC and they had a “What to watch this month” segment, and Coyote vs. ACME” was one of the featured ones, alongside Tony, One Night Only, and the HBO Max show Lanterns. Glad this movie is getting more promotion.

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  • Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 10, 2026

    Were you confused, horrified, or enraged by the premise of One Night Only, a film that sets a playful romcom in a dystopian hellscape? So was @tobiascarroll.bsky.social! And lucky for us, he's written about why the worldbuilding is, shall we say, SUBPAR. reactormag.com/movie-review...

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  • Council of Geeks @councilofgeeks.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 10, 2026

    I increasingly have a hard time believing that this "One Night Only" is a real movie and not a whole "Goncharov" or "Ships of the Northern Fleet" situation that got out of hand.

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  • Aisha Harris @aishaharris.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 7, 2026

    Every time I think about ONE NIGHT ONLY the movie, I hear this song in my head, and frankly that's a lot better than actively thinking about the "maybe fascists are on to something" "sex" comedy in theaters now. (Full PCHH reviews dropping tomorrow.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wypB...

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  • Gavia Baker-Whitelaw @gavia.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 11, 2026

    when a movie with a hypnotically terrible concept like One Night Only comes out, I feel like there should be some kind of mechanism to hand it off to a better, funnier director for an immediate remake. like, I want to see Vera Drew's One Night Only.

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  • Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 7, 2026

    One Night Only should maybe be illegal as a film but it is my only interest so I wrote this hoping to force more people to talk to me about it. (Gift link) bit.ly/4wQ6sgg

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  • Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 9, 2026

    Attempting to get in on the recent boon in classicist movie reviews by positioning One Night Only as a mediocre reimagining of Lysistrata

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  • But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.comBluesky · Sep 13, 2026

    Note to the makers of the 1989 Bee Gees concert film One Night Only: we all know there is only one Maurice Gibb. If we can hear *two* Maurices Gibb, when he is singing a solo vocal line, it rather spoils the illusion of it being a live performance.

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  • Meg Scarry! @meghancherry25.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 5, 2026

    Okay, the gay sex loophole of One Night Only raises infinitely more questions about the dystopian premise of this film than I am prepared to deal with. Why are only straight people locked to this arrangement? Is it a breeding thing? An overpopulation thing? A religious mandate?

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  • SJWJamesBond @mvbrat10.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 16, 2026

    Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The End of Oak Street destroying both One Night Only and The Brink of War (The Ronald Regan propaganda movie from Angel Studios) at the box office.

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  • Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 14, 2026

    Trailers we got before Disclosure Day in 70mm Toy Story 5 - meh The Dog Stars - the movies are back One Night Only - the Sex Purge is a good idea for a movie actually on 70mm Dune 3 Odyssey

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  • Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 6, 2026

    BUDDY, a movie that was barely advertised, has made more money than ONE NIGHT ONLY, which I saw ads for all damn year long. Make it make sense

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  • Genial Black Man @trecoolx.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 5, 2026

    If you're in line to dunk on "One Night Only", congrats; you're in the only line that will exist for this movie!

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  • Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.comBluesky · Aug 11, 2026

    I think “One Night Only is a grownup prom movie” is the take

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  • Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 18, 2026

    the cowards at Universal Pictures in Italy have retitled this movie ONE NIGHT ONLY - WHEN ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE instead of SEX PURGE

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  • largest rodent @capybaroness.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 5, 2026

    the real movie begins after you've seen One Night Only and you spend hours discussing the implications of its world with your friends. i had so, so many questions.

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  • Ben Natan @thebennatan.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 9, 2026

    I’m making a movie where “One Night Only” is banned for 364 days a year but then on that 365th, everyone has to watch it together.

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  • hyper mega bummer boy @danceyrselfdean.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 7, 2026

    checking out the plot synopsis of that One Night Only movie on wiki

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  • Polis Loizou 🐺🎃 @polisloizou.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 15, 2026

    ONE NIGHT ONLY @camdenfringe.bsky.social! Film, artifice, power and the Devil. Come and experience "You Oughta Be In Pictures", the show that has made audiences around the country look over their shoulders. Wed 5 Aug, 9pm Rosemary Branch Theatre London 🎟 camdenfringe.com/events/you-o...

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  • Gaga Daily @gagadaily.comBluesky · Dec 22, 2025

    Lady Gaga reveals alternate ‘Harlequin Live: One Night Only’ poster. The film will be released Christmas Eve on her YouTube channel.

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  • Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 11, 2026

    The concept of bachelor and bachelorette parties are deranged. Y’all hated the idea behind that movie that was like The Purge where single people could have sex only “One Night Only” per year, but such parties embrace the same idea

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  • 🩸 Bloodi 🩸 @reallywendi.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 10, 2026

    Likely prompted by the director of One Night Only saying they cut the nude scenes from the movie bc “people these days don’t want to see sex”

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  • Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.comBluesky · Aug 11, 2026

    It is unavoidably in conversation with One Night Only which, hilariously, I found more sex positive inasmuch as *no one gets punished for having sex in that film*

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  • Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.comBluesky · Aug 10, 2026

    They should do a One Night Only movie but instead of it being the one night it is legal to have sex, it should be crime instead.

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  • Richard Paris @rwparis2.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 24, 2026

    Doctor Who: The Satan Pit – Extended Movie Cut In Theaters November 23 One Night Only.

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  • Jessica Smetana @jessicasmetana.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 24, 2026

    Wrote a quick blurb in the newsletter this week about a perfect new rivalry trophy, plus on the show we dubbed some games “factory of sadness” games this weekend, recapped week 3, and naturally discussed One Night Only (aka the sex purge movie) youtu.be/SDzJXQnP85g?...

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  • Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 11, 2026

    Join the Cinema Worms as we review one of the most ridiculous films of the year, ONE NIGHT ONLY 🍆🚲🚨 aka the 'Sex Purge' film which asks you to believe that straight single Americans can only have sex on one single night of the entire year and willingly got *wrist implants* to monitor this.

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  • Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 20, 2026

    SPREADSHEET PEOPLE was the working title of the new film ONE NIGHT ONLY

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  • Breakfast All Day @bfastallday.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 7, 2026

    Christy @christylemire.bsky.social and Alonso @aduralde.bsky.social have so many questions about the world-building behind One Night Only. #filmsky 📽

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  • Stereogum @stereogum.comBluesky · Dec 25, 2025

    Lady Gaga just unveiled her new concert film ‘Harlequin Live: One Night Only,' free to watch on YouTube

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  • When To Stream @whentostream.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 22, 2026

    ONE NIGHT ONLY (2026) Streaming: September 8, 2026 PVOD (Apple, Amazon, Fandango, etc.) #OneNightOnly whentostream.com/romantic-com...

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  • Corey Atad @coreyatad.comBluesky · Aug 10, 2026

    if we're comparing to One Night Only, i'd say that film has more lore than the first The Purge, but less lore than The First Purge

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