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One Battle After Another
One Battle After Another is a 2025 American action thriller film co-produced, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, inspired by the 1990 novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti, and follows an ex-revolutionary who is forced back into his former combative lifestyle when he and his daughter become pursued by a corrupt military officer.
Anderson had wanted to adapt Pynchon's novel Vineland for years, and eventually incorporated several of his own stories into the book's narrative. Filming took place in California and was shot using VistaVision, making it one of the first films to use the format for principal photography since the 1960s. Budgeted between $130 million to $175 million, it is the most expensive film of Anderson's career.
One Battle After Another had its world premiere in Los Angeles on September 8, 2025, and was theatrically released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on September 26. The film received critical acclaim for Anderson's screenplay and direction, themes, cinematography, editing, musical score, visuals, action sequences, and the main cast's performances. It has grossed $202 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of Anderson's career.
"Ghetto" Pat Calhoun and Perfidia Beverly Hills are members of a far-left revolutionary group, the French 75. While breaking out detained immigrants from Otay Mesa Detention Center, Perfidia sexually humiliates the commanding officer, Steven J. Lockjaw, who begins lusting after her. Pat and Perfidia become lovers as the French 75 attacks politicians' offices, banks, and the power grid. When Lockjaw catches Perfidia planting a bomb, he releases her after she agrees to his demands to have sex with him at a motel.
After Perfidia delivers a baby girl named Charlene, Pat unsuccessfully tries to persuade her to settle down with them. She abandons them to continue her revolutionary activities, but is captured after murdering a security guard during an armed bank robbery. Lockjaw arranges for her to avoid prison in exchange for the whereabouts of the key French 75 members.
Perfidia enters witness protection as Lockjaw hunts down her comrades and shoots many of them on sight, forcing the survivors to go on the run. Pat and Charlene assume the aliases Bob and Willa Ferguson, while Perfidia escapes Lockjaw's custody and flees to Mexico.
Sixteen years later, living off-the-grid in the sanctuary city of Baktan Cross, California, Bob has become a paranoid stoner. He is protective of Willa, now a free-spirited teenager who resents his drug habits and paranoia. Through his vehement anti-immigration efforts, Lockjaw has become a colonel and a prominent figure in the US security agencies.
Lockjaw is invited to join the Christmas Adventurers Club, a secret society of wealthy far-right white supremacists. He hunts for Willa to cover up his interracial relationship, which the club forbids. Lockjaw hires an indigenous bounty hunter, Avanti Q, who captures Bob's comrade Howard Sommerville, triggering a distress signal to the remaining French 75.
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One Battle After Another
One Battle After Another is a 2025 American action thriller film co-produced, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, inspired by the 1990 novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti, and follows an ex-revolutionary who is forced back into his former combative lifestyle when he and his daughter become pursued by a corrupt military officer.
Anderson had wanted to adapt Pynchon's novel Vineland for years, and eventually incorporated several of his own stories into the book's narrative. Filming took place in California and was shot using VistaVision, making it one of the first films to use the format for principal photography since the 1960s. Budgeted between $130 million to $175 million, it is the most expensive film of Anderson's career.
One Battle After Another had its world premiere in Los Angeles on September 8, 2025, and was theatrically released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on September 26. The film received critical acclaim for Anderson's screenplay and direction, themes, cinematography, editing, musical score, visuals, action sequences, and the main cast's performances. It has grossed $202 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of Anderson's career.
"Ghetto" Pat Calhoun and Perfidia Beverly Hills are members of a far-left revolutionary group, the French 75. While breaking out detained immigrants from Otay Mesa Detention Center, Perfidia sexually humiliates the commanding officer, Steven J. Lockjaw, who begins lusting after her. Pat and Perfidia become lovers as the French 75 attacks politicians' offices, banks, and the power grid. When Lockjaw catches Perfidia planting a bomb, he releases her after she agrees to his demands to have sex with him at a motel.
After Perfidia delivers a baby girl named Charlene, Pat unsuccessfully tries to persuade her to settle down with them. She abandons them to continue her revolutionary activities, but is captured after murdering a security guard during an armed bank robbery. Lockjaw arranges for her to avoid prison in exchange for the whereabouts of the key French 75 members.
Perfidia enters witness protection as Lockjaw hunts down her comrades and shoots many of them on sight, forcing the survivors to go on the run. Pat and Charlene assume the aliases Bob and Willa Ferguson, while Perfidia escapes Lockjaw's custody and flees to Mexico.
Sixteen years later, living off-the-grid in the sanctuary city of Baktan Cross, California, Bob has become a paranoid stoner. He is protective of Willa, now a free-spirited teenager who resents his drug habits and paranoia. Through his vehement anti-immigration efforts, Lockjaw has become a colonel and a prominent figure in the US security agencies.
Lockjaw is invited to join the Christmas Adventurers Club, a secret society of wealthy far-right white supremacists. He hunts for Willa to cover up his interracial relationship, which the club forbids. Lockjaw hires an indigenous bounty hunter, Avanti Q, who captures Bob's comrade Howard Sommerville, triggering a distress signal to the remaining French 75.