One Battle After Another

Why watch

Starlit Cine editors

• Best for fans of action dark comedy; Paul Thomas Anderson writes, directs and co-produces.
• Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn and Regina Hall star.
• About 2 hours 42 minutes, an action thriller.

Synopsis

One Battle After Another is a 2025 American epic action-comedy thriller film written, directed, and produced by Paul Thomas Anderson. Inspired by the 1990 novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon, the film's ensemble cast includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti, in her film debut. The film follows a drug using washed-up former revolutionary who is thrust back into the conflict when an amoral tenacious counterterrorist agent resurfaces after sixteen years to bring them to justice to cover his past sins.

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Director & cast

• P

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Director

• L

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Bob Ferguson

• S

  Sean Penn

  Col. Steven J. Lockjaw

• R

  Regina Hall

  Deandra

• A

  Alana Haim

  Mae West

• T

  Teyana Taylor

  Perfidia

• W

  Wood Harris

  Laredo

• J

  Junglepussy

  Junglepussy

• B

  Benicio del Toro

  Sensei Sergio St. Carlos