One Night Only and What’s Making Us Happy
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One Night Only and What’s Making Us Happy

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 7, 202626 min

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? Looking for other conversations about rom-coms? Try these episodes: ‘Office Romance’ stars J.Lo as a CEO with a bad case of Brett Goldstein ‘You, Me & Tuscany' has got us lost in the pas...

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This week on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, we talked to legendary Oscar and Emmy-winning icon Sally Field about her starring role in the 60s television series The Flying Nun. I was on a 50-foot crane, and they would fly me into the side of a building. And I'm like Spider-Man.

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