Posted 9/26/2025
The 2025 film One Battle After Another is a highly-anticipated action-thriller directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, loosely inspired by Thomas Pynchon's novel Vineland. The movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Bob Ferguson (formerly known as "Ghetto" Pat Calhoun), a burnt-out former far-left revolutionary who has been living off-the-grid in a state of paranoid, stoner isolation for sixteen years. He is dedicated to raising his free-spirited teenage daughter, Willa (Chase Infiniti).
The main plot is set into motion when Bob's dangerous nemesis from the past, the fascist Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw (Sean Penn), a high-ranking military officer and covert white supremacist, resurfaces. Lockjaw is hunting for Willa to cover up a secret from the past involving Willa's mother, a fellow revolutionary named Perfidia (Teyana Taylor). Forced back into action, Bob must shed his passive existence and race to find and protect his daughter. The film is a hyper-kinetic, political chase movie that blends intense, practical action set pieces with dark comedy, satire, and a deeply emotional story about fatherhood and the lasting consequences of political dissent and revolution in modern America.
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