ONE NIGHT ONLY
Searching for More than A One Night Stand
What You Need To Know
ONE NIGHT ONLY is a modern rom-com. The movie follows Owen and Allie, a pizza shop owner and a singer, as they search for real love on the least romantic night of the year: the one night that premarital sex remains legal. Owen’s girlfriend dumps him for the night to sleep around, prompting him to find someone worth sleeping with.
Meanwhile, Allie seeks a real connection instead of a one-night stand. The two repeatedly encounter each other during their quests for love, battling over the last condom in the city, sneaking into parties, and getting stuck together at the police station. When their dates turn out poorly, they end up at Owen’s pizza shop, where they discuss the true meaning of love. Just as Allie realizes her feelings for Owen, his girlfriend calls and wants him back, but Owen rushes out to sleep with her; he cannot forgive her and recognizes his love for Allie.
This movie captures beautiful shots of New York and features Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro delivering remarkable performances that bring their characters to life.
ONE NIGHT ONLY presents a mainly hedonistic and anti-biblical worldview. The story unfolds on the night when people engage in casual sex, with many pursuing multiple partners to enjoy the experience. However, tt has redemptive elements as the main characters recognize that this approach is misguided. Allie clearly states that sex loses value if it leaves one feeling empty.
The movie includes graphic implied sex scenes with full male and female rear nudity and upper front female nudity, alongside numerous sexual jokes and discussions about topics such as prostitution and polyamory. MOVIEGUIDE® finds ONE NIGHT ONLY excessive and unacceptable and unsuitable for family viewing. We gave it our strongest rating, and it means exactly what it says: to be avoided.
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements
A biblical worldview mixed hedonistic and anti-biblical elements where one night a year where people are allowed to have sex, so the general public spends this night sleeping around. A character is a homosexual. Redemptive and biblical elements as the main characters realize that having casual sex is not good for a relationship and waiting for marriage is good
Foul Language
Over 40 obscenities and profanities with the use of the “f” word over 30 times. The “f the mandate” is also chanted and written down over eighttimes
Violence
A character falls off a piano and bashes his head into the ground
Sex
Many characters are shown kissing and making out. Main characters begin sexual intercourse throughout the movie but are always stopped by unforeseen circumstances. Main character is zip tied to a tree as part of a sex game but gets robbed instead. Two gay couples are shown kissing and a lesbian character briefly talks about her girlfriends. The main character tries to make a condom out of a rubber glove. The main characters seductively make pizza together. A young boy makes explicit sex jokes. Sexual jokes and topics are frequently discussed. Polyamory is briefly discussed. Male genitalia is graffitied on a wall.
Nudity
Full rear male nudity, full rear female nudity, upper female nudity. Many characters shown in their undergarments
Alcohol Use
Main character gets drunk when his girlfriend dumps him. Bar scenes where alcohol is present
Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse
No drug use;
Miscellaneous Immorality
Main character lies about his name. Price gouging for anything related to this “one night.” The main characters steal a condom from a convenience store. Prostitution is discussed. People are overjoyed to be able to sleep with whomever they want. A single-mother leaves her young son with a babysitter so she can enjoy her “one night.” The main characters jokingly insult each other.
