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‘One Night Only’ is a dystopian rom-com with very little to say
One Night Only and What’s Making Us Happy
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Monica Barbaro in One Night Only.
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One Night Only is set in an alternate universe where premarital sex has been outlawed, except for one 12-hour window a year. The film stars Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner as two beautiful New Yorkers looking to have sex when the mandate is temporarily lifted. But does the film deliver on its sexy premise, or is it more chaste than it seems?
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