O Horizon

O Horizon (2026)

If you're honest about what you want... astonishing things can happen.

Abby, a brilliant, young neuroscientist who has recently lost her father, drowns her grief by spending her days working with a monkey named Dorey. Abby meets a programmer, Sam, who has created a technology that reconnects Abby with her beloved father. Her relationship with her digitized dad then forces her to re-examine everything from her romantic relationships to her life’s work.

Date of release
2026-06-12
Runtime
1h 47m
Genres
Science Fiction, Drama
Director
Madeleine Rotzler

Casting

Interesting facts

O Horizon is a 2025 American sci-fi comedy drama film written and directed by Madeleine Sackler. It stars Maria Bakalova as Abby, a gifted neuroscientist who uses her career to bury the grief over her recently deceased father. David Strathairn plays her late father Warren, and Adam Pally is Sam, a computer programmer who helps Abby reconnect with her father.

Production

In January 2023, it was announced that Madeleine Sackler would be directing O Horizon from a script she wrote, with Maria Bakalova and David Strathairn leading the cast. Later that month, it was announced that Adam Pally would also star in the film. Production wrapped in the fall of 2022.

In January 2023, Artnet reported that the film's storyline sparked objections with some of its crew, who felt uncomfortable with how closely it resembled Sackler's relationship with her own father, Jonathan Sackler, who died of cancer in 2020, and how it portrayed him in a good light. She was previously also criticized for not denouncing her family's company Purdue Pharma, infamous for its role in the opioid epidemic.

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