Night Comes On is a 2018 American drama film directed by Jordana Spiro, who wrote the screenplay with Angelica Nwandu.

As a child, she witnessed the murder of her mother by her father; her intervening years have been spent bouncing around various foster care homes.

The idea for the film came about when Jordana Spiro was looking to make a feature about the experiences of foster care kids and what it's like to age out of the system.

She had been a volunteer at Peace4Kids, an LA-based foster youth organization, and wanted to write the script with someone who had a personal background in the subject.

[5] Nwandu and Spiro worked on the screenplay together over the phone and in person at the 2014 Sundance Institute's Screenwriters Lab.

The critical consensus reads, "Steadily drawing viewers into its harrowing tale with equal parts grim intensity and startling compassion, Night Comes On heralds the arrivals of debuting director Jordan [sic] Spiro and her magnetic young stars.

Though he said the film could have benefited from going "on several beats longer", he felt it "is still an unusual and interesting feature that tries to convey the inner state of a non-communicative young woman mainly through reaction shots of her face.