One Battle After Another(2025)

Name: One Battle After Another
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Released: Sep 26, 2025
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Teyana Taylor, Regina Hall

Warner Bros.

R
- Rated R for pervasive language, violence, sexual content, and drug use
2h 41m

Release Date: Sep 26, 2025 | Wide

When their enemy resurfaces after 16 years, a group of ex-revolutionaries reunite to rescue the daughter of one of their own.

Releases

Original Release | Sep 26, 2025

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Box Office Results

Updated as of May 17, 2026 11:21 AM ET

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$22,000,387
Total US & Canada:
$72,918,884
Total International
$140,100,000
Total Worldwide:
$213,018,884

Current Showtimes

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Director & Top Cast

Paul Thomas Anderson
Director

Leonardo DiCaprio
Bob

Sean Penn
Col. Steven J. Lockjaw

Benicio Del Toro
Sensei Sergio St. Carlos

Teyana Taylor
Perfidia

Regina Hall
Deandra

Wood Harris

Laredo

Alana Haim

Mae West

Shayna McHayle

Junglepussy

Paul Grimstad

Sommerville

Dijon

Talleyrand

Brooklyn Demme

Sober Rick

Sachi Diserafino

R.A. Rippey

Melissa Dueñas

Sylvia

Starletta DuPois

Gramma Minnie

Vanessa Ganter

Momma Sandrae

Otillia Gupta

Newborn Baby Charlene

Nia Leon

Baby Charlene

Technical Specifications

Sound Mix: IMAX 6-Track,Dolby Atmos,Dolby Surround 7.1,DTS:X,DTS 70 mm,Auro 11.1

Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: United States

Language: English,Spanish

Summaries

Plot Summary

"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 afterward becomes obsessed with her. Pat and Perfidia become lovers. When Lockjaw catches Perfidia planting a bomb, he releases her after she agrees to his demand to have sex with him.After Perfidia gives birth to a girl named Charlene, Pat tries to persuade her to settle down, but she instead abandons Pat and Charlene to continue her revolutionary activities. She is caught after murdering a security guard in an armed bank robbery. Lockjaw arranges for her to avoid prison in exchange for names and whereabouts of key French 75 members. Perfidia enters witness protection while Lockjaw uses the information she provided to hunt down and summarily execute her comrades. French 75 member Howard gives Pat and Charlene stolen identities as Bob and Willa Ferguson, while Perfidia leaves witness protection for 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 substance abuse, and has led her to believe Perfidia was a hero. Through his vehement anti-immigration efforts, Lockjaw has become a colonel and a prominent figure within the US security agencies. When Lockjaw is invited to become a member of the Christmas Adventurers Club, a white supremacist secret society, he seeks to kill Willa to hide his past interracial relationship with Perfidia. He hires the Indigenous bounty hunter Avanti Q to capture Howard, causing a distress signal to go out to the French 75.Lockjaw sends troops to Baktan Cross using an immigration and drug operation as cover. French 75 member Deandra rescues Willa before her school dance is raided. While at home, Bob is warned by the French 75 about Lockjaw, whose men then raid his house. Escaping through a tunnel, Bob tries to coordinate with the resistance over a payphone, but cannot remember their greeting code. Sergio St. Carlos, Willa's karate teacher and community leader, helps him while evacuating immigrants via a hidden passage. While fleeing with Sergio's students across rooftops, Bob falls and is arrested. Deandra takes Willa to a convent of revolutionary nuns, where she is told the truth about her mother's betrayal of the cause.The Christmas Adventurers find evidence of Lockjaw's relationship with Perfidia and send member Tim Smith to kill him and Willa. Lockjaw locates Willa at the convent, where Deandra is arrested. Holding Willa hostage, he tests their DNA in front of her, confirming she is his daughter. Sergio arranges Bob's escape and drives him to the convent, throwing him out of the car when police begin to pursue them. Bob steals another car and reaches the convent, unsuccessfully attempting to kill Lockjaw with Sergio's rifle. Lockjaw hires Avanti to kill Willa, but after refusing over her age, Avanti is told to deliver her to a far-right militia instead. Tim tracks down Lockjaw and shoots him in the face, causing his car to crash and leaving him presumed dead. Bob finds the crash site while searching for Willa.Avanti brings Willa to the militia but, after a change of heart, frees her and is killed in a shootout with the militia. Willa takes Avanti's car and pistol and escapes, only for Tim to begin tailing her with Bob frantically trying to catch up. Willa lures Tim into a crash by exploiting a blind summit. She shoots him dead when he fails to recite the revolutionary countersign. Bob arrives and finds Willa. Willa demands the countersign at gunpoint, but Bob convinces her to stand down. They tearfully embrace and drive away, as Lockjaw is revealed to have survived.Some time later, a severely scarred Lockjaw is seemingly welcomed into the Christmas Adventurers, but is fatally gassed and cremated shortly afterwards. Returning home with Willa, Bob gives her a letter from Perfidia, where she apologizes for her actions and vows to reunite with her family soon. Later, Bob gives Willa his blessing as she departs for a protest in Oakland.

Storyline

Washed-up revolutionary Bob exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa. When his evil nemesis resurfaces after 16 years and she goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her, father and daughter both battling the consequences of his past. — Official synopsis Once, Bob, an idealistic revolutionary under the American insurgent group French 75, was rescuing detained migrants. He was also planting bombs in administration buildings with his hardcore lover to make a statement. Since then, it has been one battle after another. But things are different now; Bob is an off-grid nobody, the group is a disorganised mess, and there is a kid caught in the middle--Willa, a free-spirited high-school student. Sometimes, the past returns with a vengeance. And when Willa disappears without a trace, sinister powers take charge, and an unstoppable adversary obsessed with results re-enters Bob's life. Has the next revolution just begun? — Nick Riganas