The sex Purge sends itself to horny jail
A.V. Club • • entertainment
Key Points:
- Will Gluck’s "One Night Only" is a romantic comedy with a political satire twist, set in a dystopian future where the government restricts sex to married couples, allowing the unmarried to only engage in sex legally one night a year.
- The film stars Callum Turner as Owen, a lovestruck pizzamaker, and Monica Barbaro as Allie, a single singer with stage fright, whose unlikely romance drives the story amid the sex restrictions.
- The LGBTQ community is humorously portrayed as having bypassed the sex restrictions, though their secret remains a punchline in the film.
- Despite its engaging premise and performances, the movie’s ending controversially rejects the theme of sexual freedom, opting for an anti-sex message that contradicts the earlier societal critique.
- The script, written by Travis Braun, mixes romantic comedy tropes with political satire but falters with an outdated conclusion reminiscent of Production Code-era censorship.
