Sarah and David are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure together where they get to re-live important moments from their respective pasts, illuminating how they got to where they are in the present... and possibly getting a chance to alter their futures.

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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025)

Relive your past. Change your future.

★ 6.1/10 September 17, 2025 109 min

DramaFantasyRomance

Director: Kogonada  ·  Writer: Seth Reiss

Sarah and David are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure together where they get to re-live important moments from their respective pasts, illuminating how they got to where they are in the present... and possibly getting a chance to alter their futures.

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Director

Kogonada Kogonada

Cast

Colin Farrell Colin Farrell David Margot Robbie Margot Robbie Sarah Kevin Kline Kevin Kline The Mechanic Phoebe Waller-Bridge Phoebe Waller-Bridge Female Cashier Lily Rabe Lily Rabe Sarah's Mother Hamish Linklater Hamish Linklater David's Father Jodie Turner-Smith Jodie Turner-Smith GPS (voice) Chloe East Chloe East Cheryl Jennifer Grant Jennifer Grant David's Mother Billy Magnussen Billy Magnussen The Man Sarah Gadon Sarah Gadon The Woman Jason Kravits Jason Kravits Mr. Nelson

User Reviews (2)

Brent Marchant
Brent Marchant September 19, 2025
★ 9/10

It’s been said that “life is what you make of it,” that “we become what we believe.” To some, this probably seems like the content of a warm, fuzzy, inspirational greeting card. But, if we truly take the time to examine ourselves and our lives, we’re likely to find that there’s more than a small kernel of truth in these observations. Such is the point of the latest offering from filmmaker Kogonada, who deftly explores how this principle is applied to our romantic lives, especially for those who are single and who believe that they’re all thumbs and hopelessly stymied where questions of love and relationships are concerned. The film follows the quirky, surreal, metaphysically driven experiences of David (Colin Farrell) and Sarah (Margot Robbie), who meet at a destination wedding. Their journey, however, actually begins before they meet when they each lease vehicles from an…

CinemaSerf
CinemaSerf September 25, 2025
★ 6/10

Suspiciously, “David” (Colin Farrell) arrives at his car to find it clamped and adjacently is a conveniently placed advert for a car hire company. He’s a wedding to get to so turns up at this warehouse where he is introduced to a Germanically brusque receptionist (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) before driving off in a twenty year old car complete with it’s own, rather individual, form of GPS. He makes it to the nuptials where he encounters the enigmatic “Sarah” (Margot Robbie). She proposes marriage within five minutes, so we get a clue that this rapport is going to be a bit different. Indeed, after a bit of rain and some intervention from their car’s satellite guide and this pair of resolute singletons are soon car-sharing. That’s when they begin a series of reminiscing adventures that start like a Miyazaki mystery with a door in a field, then takes the travellers through a serie…