# Movies that take place during the course of one night **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 7, 2005, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-during-the-course-of-one-night/293411 "2005-03-07T19:19:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-during-the-course-of-one-night/293411/41 "2005-03-07T23:30:59Z")
The gay date movie [Trick](http://imdb.com/title/tt0162710/) (as long as you consider sunrise part of the night) The main action of the 4,342 movie versions of _A Christmas Carol_ takes place over the course of a night ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-during-the-course-of-one-night/293411/42 "2005-03-08T00:51:06Z")
> [@Garfield226](#): > > The Wizard of Oz, technically. Humph. It \*wasn’t \* a dream. :mad: Don’t I only wish. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-during-the-course-of-one-night/293411/43 "2005-03-08T01:02:20Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > The gay date movie [Trick](http://imdb.com/title/tt0162710/) (as long as you consider sunrise part of the night) > > The main action of the 4,342 movie versions of _A Christmas Carol_ takes place over the course of a night The \*\*Evil Dead 2 \*\* takes place aproximately over the course of a single night. Black \*\*Hawk Down \*\* seems to take place over the course of aprox 24 hours, including a night. Does **West Side Story** take place over the course of a single night/day? ---
**Author:** ![Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Backwater_Under_Duck)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-during-the-course-of-one-night/293411/44 "2005-03-08T01:49:48Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > I think the first _Halloween_ movie was chiefly one night. Don’t know about the sequels. In fact, both _Halloween_ and _Halloween II_ take place on the same night. ---
**Author:** ![LeeshaJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-during-the-course-of-one-night/293411/45 "2005-03-08T02:10:52Z")
_Run Lola Run_ takes place over 20 minutes, if you don’t count the “Lola and Mani in bed” flashbacks. ---
**Author:** ![jweb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71c47a/32.png) [@jweb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jweb)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-during-the-course-of-one-night/293411/46 "2005-03-08T03:12:03Z")
[QUOTE=bclouse] **Dazed and Confused** comes to mind but I can’t verify it./QUOTE] The movie starts about an hour before the school ends (say 2:00 p.m.) and ends sometime the next morning (8-9 a.m). **Resivior Dogs** takes place in the span of a few hours, albiet during the day. I believe **Go** also took place in a single night. ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-during-the-course-of-one-night/293411/47 "2005-03-08T03:53:14Z")
**The Ref** Dennis Leary, Kevin Spacey **Mixed Nuts** Steve Martin, Madeleine Kahn happens in a single day. Technically **Amos and Andrew** Nick Cage Samuel L. Jackson is a single night. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-during-the-course-of-one-night/293411/48 "2005-03-08T14:58:09Z")
Thanks, I’m specifically looking for movies that go from sundown to sunup. Mostly I’ve had a basic idea for a screenplay/story and this is type of story structure I’m thinking about. I find these films facinating, especially the non-horror/thriller ones. Before Sunrise is a great suggestion. Yes I want it to be at night. A movie that takes place during the course of the day just isn’t the same. People don’t usually stay up all night. If you have ever worked the overnight shift you know how it just is ‘different’ from the day shift. Eyes Wide Shut is another one. That’s one long night, (too long if you ask me) but like American Graffiti the characters at sunrise are different from who they were at sundown. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-during-the-course-of-one-night/293411/49 "2005-03-08T15:11:59Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Eyes Wide Shut is another one. That’s one long night, (too long if you ask me) but like American Graffiti the characters at sunrise are different from who they were at sundown. I haven’t seen Eyes Wide Shut since it came out, but I know it takes place over a few days, at least a couple. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-during-the-course-of-one-night/293411/50 "2005-03-08T15:27:01Z")
Last year’s French film _Jet Lag_ with Jean Reno and Juliette Binoche is mostly sundown to sunrise. I thought it was a terrible movie, FWIW. ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-during-the-course-of-one-night/293411/51 "2005-03-08T15:55:37Z")
I caught a fairly amusing movie called **Groove** on cable a while back. Basically the story of several groups of twenty-somethings in San Francisco attending (or getting lost trying to find) a particular rave. Good soundtrack (if you’re into that kind of thing) and a pretty realistic portrayal of an Ecstasy-fueled all nighter. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-during-the-course-of-one-night/293411/52 "2005-03-08T18:55:03Z")
_Two girls and a guy_ with Robert Downey, Heather Graham and Natasha Wagner. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-during-the-course-of-one-night/293411.md?page=2)