Remember The Purge? The premise of the long-running horror franchise (which I love) is that there’s one day each year when all crime is 100% legal, so everybody goes buckwild with the violence. Well, what if you took that premise and made a rom-com out of it? That’s kinda what’s going on in One Night Only, a film set in a world where premarital sex is illegal except for one day of the year.
Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner star in One Night Only, from co-writer/director Will Gluck. EW has dropped the first images from the film, showing Turner’s character as a New York City pizza guy. The story finds its characters, named Allie and Owen, scrambling to find someone to sleep with on the day when premarital sex is legal.
In addition, the debut trailer has arrived courtesy of Universal Pictures.
SYNOPSIS: Academy Award® nominee Monica Barbaro (A Complete Unknown, Top Gun: Maverick) and BAFTA nominee Callum Turner (Masters of the Air, Fantastic Beasts franchise) star as Allie and Owen, two love-starved strangers who crash into each other in an ever-so-slightly fictionalized New York City on the one night of the year when single people are allowed to have sex.
Recently dumped Owen and hopeful romantic Allie might be the only two singles in the city looking for more than just a quick encounter. They both feel a spark when they meet, but a series of missteps and side quests complicate their night, keeping them apart. As they each race toward and away from each other across the city, they might discover that the one thing they want most is closer than they think.
Also in the cast are Maya Hawke, Julia Fox, pop star King Princess, Ben Marshall, Ziwe, Levar Burton, and Molly Ringwald who is no stranger to romantic comedies.
Barbaro really broke out with her performance in A Complete Unknown, and again recently in Crime 101. Turner starred in another high-concept rom-com recently, Eternity, alongside Elizabeth Olsen and Miles Teller.
Gluck, who has already scored hit films with Easy A, Friends with Benefits, Peter Rabbit, and Annie, had his biggest yet with the Sydney Sweeney/Glen Powell rom-com Anyone But You. In short, he knows this genre extremely well.
One Night Only hits theaters on August 7th.
