{"id":29437,"date":"2026-08-06T05:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T00:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=29437"},"modified":"2026-08-06T05:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T00:24:22","slug":"one-night-onlys-preposterous-premise-gives-way-to-a-delightful-rom-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=29437","title":{"rendered":"One Night Only\u2019s Preposterous Premise Gives Way to a Delightful Rom-Com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">As you can imagine, this specified \u201cone night\u201d would be especially mad in a city like New York, where people are often a little nuts to begin with, and that\u2019s where <em>One Night Only <\/em>takes place. Owen (<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7335405\/eternity-ending-explained\/\" target=\"_self\">Callum Turner<\/a>, rendering a reasonably believable American accent) runs a pizza joint, and he\u2019s getting ready to close up shop as this special 12-hour night is set to begin. He\u2019s not married, but he does have a girlfriend (played by <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/collections\/time100-next-2023\/6308496\/maya-hawke\/\" target=\"_self\">Maya Hawke<\/a>), who informs him, when they meet up for their date, that she wants to use this one free night of premarital sex to sleep with someone else. Owen is crestfallen. But he also figures he may as well try his own luck. That\u2019s how he runs into Allie (<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/collections\/time100-next-2025\/7318886\/monica-barbaro\/\" target=\"_self\">Monica Barbaro<\/a>), also on her own. She\u2019s had a tough workday\u2014she\u2019s a singer, and she\u2019s been toiling in the studio, recording a schmaltzy jingle for a psoriasis commercial\u2014and her evening plans have fallen through: the pal she was set to go out with, Jacinta (King Princess), found herself a literal prince in the early hours of the evening and has taken off. Allie\u2019s roommate (Quintessa Swindell), who happens to be gay and has no interest in these one-night-only shenanigans (\u201cWe\u2019ve been dancing around your laws since before the Bible,\u201d they explain, suggesting that the city\u2019s gay population has pretty much ignored the premarital-sex ban altogether), urges her to make the most of the evening, kitting her out in a fetching, if minuscule, green sequined dress left behind by an ex-girlfriend. In this splendid and very hot outfit, completed with spindly heeled sandals, Allie reluctantly toddles off into the night to join her glimmering, mini-skirted sisters. 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