Ding! Ding! Ding! 2026 has found its “he was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died” moment — only instead of a naff (and ultimately cut) line of Madame Web dialogue, this one’s a whole logline. The set-up for Easy A and Anyone But You director Will Gluck’s latest, Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro starrer One Night Only, follows — per its official synopsis — “two love-starved strangers who crash into each other in an ever-so-slightly fictionalised New York City on the one night of the year when single people are allowed to have sex.” Seriously, what in the ‘what if The Purge was a rom-com’ did we just read? We’re not entirely sure, but we do have a trailer. Check it out below;
Okay, so none of that clarifies how exactly One Night Only‘s premise works (what do you mean “the one night a year where single people are legally allowed to have sex”? Why? How? What?!). What the trailer for Gluck’s latest does do however is hit some solid rom-com notes right off the bat. Pizza place meet-cute? Check. When Harry Met Sally references? Check. Playful negging, goofball friends, and poppy needle drops? (Hello, Haim!) Check, check, and check again! And as for Allie (Barbaro) and Owen (Turner), the unlucky in love singles seemingly locked on a one-way track into each others’ arms? The chemistry really is there, and on present evidence, may well be the most believable and indeed logical thing about One Night Only so far.
The official synopsis for the movie — which elsewhere co-stars the likes of Maya Hawke, Julia Fox, King Princesss, Molly Ringwald, and Levar Burton — reads: “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 just might discover that the one thing they want most is closer than they think.”
Will the finished film offer up a cogent explanation for its nutso premise? Will Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro find out that one kiss really is all it takes after all? And are we going to get Easy A Will Gluck here or Anyone But You Will Gluck? We’ll find out when One Night Only hits cinemas, presumably for several nights actually, on 28 August.
