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\n\tWith Colin Farrell<\/a> and Margot Robbie<\/a> on board I was ready to go wherever their new romantic film A Big Bold Beautiful Journey<\/a> wants to take me. It is in fact a bit of a fantasy trip where two strangers find themselves on a path to their pasts in the hopes it may help unlock a happier future. They do this by opening freestanding doors in the middle of fields that lead to different periods in each of their lives.<\/p>\n \n\tIt is all put in motion by a quirky couple that David (Farrell) discovers on an ad for a car-rental agency. It turns out this is the first door he has to navigate, and once he finally does he sees a vast warehouse with its proprietors in the distance, the mechanic (Kevin Kline<\/a>) and cashier (Phoebe Waller-Bridge<\/a>) who do a sales job on a car rental that will change his life \u2014 especially the GPS, which guides him into an alter-world he can\u2019t access on his own, a HAL-like computer system that has big plans for both David and Sarah (Robbie), the single woman he meets a wedding where after a few minutes she facetiously proposes. It isn\u2019t serious; she is clearly guarded and shy of any relationship at the moment, definitely anything that requires commitment. Both have that in common. In no time (but it feels like an hour), this pair are in the 1994 Saturn SL on their way to, uh, their own past lives.<\/p>\n \n\tFirst stop is a 19th century lighthouse where David had spent some special time many years before. Then it is Sarah\u2019s turn at an art museum with great meaning to her. They then embark to David\u2019s high school where at age 15 he had the lead of J. Pierpont Finch in the musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. He is his actual age only to Sarah, as everyone else in the school and audience sees him as the teen he once was. However, this was a traumatic production for David, who was also trying to profess his love to his young co-star, but she isn\u2019t having it. What morphs from actual production numbers from the show to his own lovesick meltdown onstage upon the rejection by his crush is that this grown man still hasn\u2019t gotten over it, and just ambles through life carefully avoiding falling in love again.<\/p>\n \n\tThere are also key scenes for both set in hospitals. One cleverly has David meeting his father (Hamish Linklater) in the waiting room of the hospital where he was born prematurely. Another has Sarah rushing to be by the side of her dying mother (Lily Rabe), but as she explained it was something in real life that never happened; she was \u201cscrewing\u201d her professor as her mother died alone. It launched a lifetime of regret, but can it all be fixed for both of them in this exercise of romantic surrealism?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n