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The case for "One Night Only" rests on a premise that should fold in the first act.
Will Gluck has built a romantic comedy around a congressional ban on premarital sex, enforced by wrist sensors and police, with one designated night each year when the unwed are permitted to act on it.
That Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner make the film land says something about commitment over concept.
The risk in the premise On paper, the world screenwriter Travis Braun has built is a dystopian nightmare, and the film does not pretend otherwise. Characters make clear they are unhappy with the three-year-old law.
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