Question 1

Is Manhattan Night woke?

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Manhattan Night has a woke score of 6/100, which means it is not especially woke compared with higher-scoring titles. Manhattan Night is a 2016 neo-noir thriller written and directed by Brian DeCubellis and based on Colin Harrison’s 1996 novel Manhattan Nocturne. Tabloid reporter Porter Wren gets pulled into a dangerous investigation of a filmmaker’s murder by a seductive widow, leading to blackmail, obsession, infidelity, and threats to his marriage and family. The story follows classic hard-boiled genre lines with steamy encounters, moral compromise, and personal darkness in a Manhattan setting, delivered through straightforward thriller plotting and no modern social, political, or identity messaging.

Question 2

Is there DEI in Manhattan Night?

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The biggest factors in our score are Creator track record context, Representation / casting choices. Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and father. But when Caroline, a seductive stranger asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her filmmaker husband Simon, he is drawn into a very nasty case of sexual obsession and blackmail--one that threatens his job, his marriage, and his life.

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