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.
Relive your past. Change your future.
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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Colin Farrell
David
Margot Robbie
Sarah
Kevin Kline
The Mechanic
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Female Cashier
Lily Rabe
Sarah's Mother
Hamish Linklater
David's Father
Jodie Turner-Smith
GPS (voice)
Chloe East
Cheryl
Jennifer Grant
David's Mother
Billy Magnussen
The Man
Sarah Gadon
The Woman
Jason Kravits
Mr. Nelson 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…
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…
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is a 2025 romance and fantasy movie from the United States directed by Kogonada, starring Colin Farrell, Margot Robbie and Kevin Kline. It was released on September 17, 2025. The running time is 1 h 49 min, in English. Audiences rate it 6.1/10 from 448 votes — mixed to positive.
“Relive your past. Change your future.”
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey was released on September 17, 2025.
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey was directed by Kogonada.
The main cast includes Colin Farrell, Margot Robbie, Kevin Kline, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Lily Rabe.
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey runs 1 h 49 min.
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It holds an audience score of 6.1/10 from 448 ratings, so fans of romance and fantasy titles are its best audience. Read member reviews below or add your own.
🏆 Awards: 3 nominations total
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