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In the summer of 76, as President Jimmy Carter pledges to give government back to the people, tensions run high in a working-class Philadelphia neighborhood where the Black Panthers once flourished. When Marcus returnshaving bolted years earlierhis homecoming isnt exactly met with fanfare. His former movement brothers blame him for an unspeakable betrayal. Only his best friends widow, Patricia, appreciates Marcuss predicament, which both unites and paralyzes them. As Patricias daughter compels the two comrades to confront their past, history repeats itself in dangerous ways. Night Catches Us masterfully reckons with the complexity of its characters revolutionary ideologies and internal desires. Bell-bottoms, Afros, potlucks, and Caddies set the scene as the film potently interweaves political media with an evocative soul-inspired score, summoning a vivid sense of place and time. The golden light that bathes characters faces seems to express the promiseand elusivenessof the necessary change Marcus and Patricia struggle for so dearlyeach by separate means.