The Night Of (2016)
- 2016
- ·525 min
Naz is a strait-laced Pakistani-American student who is off to a must-attend party on a Friday night.
His only available transportation being his father's taxi cab, Naz sets off into Manhattan.
But his party-going plans are quickly forgotten when a mysterious young woman jumps aboard in need of a ride.
Charmed by her intense intrigue and good looks, Naz gets swept up by her pressures.
After a mind-altering night of drugs and passion, the woman is dead, and Naz finds himself in the crosshairs of a gruesome murder investigation, panicked and shaken, but possibly with a trace of doubt as to his own innocence.
~~~ An American-born young man, to parents from Pakistan, takes his father's cab into Manhattan to attend a party.
His plans change as a young woman enters his cab for a ride.
He's immediately intrigued by her beauty and story.
They go back to her apartment for a night of sex and drugs.
He wakes up completely disoriented and finds her stabbed to death in bed.
He panics and leaves the scene.
Now he is a suspect in the murder.
He's sweet, innocent, and confused.
Nasir Naz Khan is a 20-something University student living in New York.
One night he takes his father's taxi to go to a party.
Along the way he meets a beautiful young woman, Andrea, and his plans change.
They go back to her place and after a night of drugs and passion, Naz wakes up to find Andrea dead, stabbed to death.
Naz panics and flees the scene, only to be picked up by the police for a traffic offence.
ULtimately Naz ends up at the police station, where the police then realise they have the prime suspect in a murder, and Naz is held for questioning.
On the case is the methodical, perceptive Detective Sergeant Box.
Box builds a compelling case against Naz and arrests him for Andrea's murder.
Also on the scene is small-time lawyer John Stone who convinces Naz to hire him.
However, the weight of evidence against Naz is massive and John Stone may be out of his depth.
- Actors
- David Chen·John Turturro·Reginald L. Barnes·Syam M. Lafi
- Genre
- Crime·Drama
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
Camerimage 2016
- Best Pilot
Art Directors Guild 2017
- Television Movie or Limited Series
Absolute rip off of CRIMINAL JUSTICE made in the UK in 2008 starring Ben Whishaw, Maxine Peak. Opening story is almost scene for scene exact replicas.
It's been 3 years since I watched The Night Of I fully remember the feel of it, enthralling, suspenseful, murky and dark with notes of hopelessness and unclarity as to the character's future.The story was basically a simple one, but very originally told, unfolding with precise details to the night, while the boy's mind was opaque with drink and drug use, leading him to remember almost nothing useful as how his fate was rolling behind his eyes and what had really caused the situation he was in.
The show started off really well, it's realistic, suspenseful and immediately got me hooked. This show is pretty good all the way through, but the ending was a bit generic.
