The crime drama “Night Always Comes” attempts to shine a light on the economic disparity in this country.

That’s admirable, but the film from director Benjamin Caron — an adaptation of Willy Vlautin’s novel “The Night Always Comes” debuting this week on Netflix — does so quite inelegantly.

In the film’s first few minutes, the lead character, Vanessa Kirby’s Lynette, drives by the homeless in the streets of Portland, Oregon, as heavy-handed, almost surely fictional news reports drone on about rising costs and frozen wages.

You’d think that maybe she’d eventually change the channel, given that Lynette certainly is feeling the crush of financial strain. Working two jobs, she stands at the precipice of losing the small house in which much of her troubled adolescence took place.

It is now

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