A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

Relive your past. Change your future.

All ages 2025 · 109 min · ★ 6.2 · Romance, Fantasy, Drama

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.

Directed by Kogonada · Written by Seth Reiss

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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

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