One Battle After Another
A paranoid fugitive's fragile peace shatters when his old enemy resurfaces and his daughter vanishes, forcing a reckoning with his radical past.
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About the film
Some search for battle, others are born into it...
What it’s about
Bob Ferguson lives off-grid in Southern California with his teenage daughter Willa, haunted by his time in a left-wing extremist group. Sixteen years after a deadly raid scattered his comrades, his former nemesis Colonel Lockjaw tracks him down. When Willa disappears, Bob must confront the consequences of his revolutionary history to find her.
What hooks you
Paul Thomas Anderson directs Leonardo DiCaprio as Bob and Sean Penn as Colonel Lockjaw. The film won five Oscars in 2026, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. Anderson developed the script over two decades, drawing on Thomas Pynchon's novel 'Vineland' and reimagining its ideas in a modern setting.
Who it’s for
It suits viewers who enjoy character-driven thrillers with political undertones and slow-burning tension. Those drawn to stories of fugitives, fractured families, and the long shadow of radical pasts will find much to engage with.
- Country
- United States
- Year
- 2025
- Running time
- 2h 42min
- Age rating
- 17+
- MPAA
- R
- World premiere
- Sep 24, 2025
×1.5box office to budget
Ratings
MOVIE․ONE · 152 votesCreative team
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Trivia
- Filming took place from January 21 to July 30, 2024. The shooting process had to be interrupted for two and a half months due to actor Benicio Del Toro's work on the film "The Phoenician Scheme" from March to June.
- Director, screenwriter and producer Paul Thomas Anderson began working on the script about twenty years ago, planning an action film with a large number of car chases, kept taking breaks, but every 2-3 years returned to the unfinished script. Somewhere in the early 2000s, he planned to make a film based on Thomas Pynchon's novel Vineland (1990), whose plot unfolded in the 1960s, and this led him to reflect on how the novel's ideas could be reinterpreted after several decades. At the same time, he had the idea of a revolutionary heroine. These considerations remained at the center of his creative process for many years. Over time, Anderson decided that the idea of a literal adaptation of the novel should be abandoned, but he kept in the script the elements of the novel that had especially moved him and supplemented them with the results of his own reflections.
- The French 75 is the name of a cocktail that includes gin, champagne, lemon juice and sugar. It is said that the cocktail was named after the French 75 mm gun used in both world wars.
Awards and nominations
14 wins · 26 nominations
- 5 wins Academy Awards
- 4 wins Golden Globe Awards
- 4 wins BAFTA Awards
- 1 win Cesar Awards
- Best Adapted Screenplay Paul Thomas Anderson Academy Awards · 2026
- Best Casting Academy Awards · 2026
- Best editing Academy Awards · 2026
- Best Director Paul Thomas Anderson Academy Awards · 2026
- Best Film Paul Thomas Anderson Academy Awards · 2026
- Best Supporting Actress Teyana Taylor Golden Globe Awards · 2026
Also nominated Screen Actors Guild Awards6 Saturn Awards1
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