American Honey

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American Honey

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2016

2h 42m

Comedy

Drama

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Star (Sasha Lane), an adolescent girl from a troubled home, runs away with a traveling sales crew that drives across the American Midwest selling subscriptions door-to-door. Finding her feet in this gang of teenagers, one of whom is Jake (Shia LaBeouf), she soon gets into the group's lifestyle of hard-partying nights, law-bending days and young love.

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Critics Consensus

American Honey offers a refreshingly unconventional take on the coming-of-age drama whose narrative risks add up to a rewarding experience even if they don't all pay off.

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Jess Kibler

Bitch Media

02/11/2021

A completely gorgeous and remarkable film... American Honey manages to depict the desperation of being a poor young person in a forgotten corner of America without condescending to or worshipping its destitute characters.

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Karen Han

CutPrintFilm

12/08/2017

9/10

American Honey is undeniably gorgeous. It's drenched in color; it drips with it like, yes, honey. In the center of it all is Sasha Lane as Star, just as bright (if not brighter), and impossible not to watch.

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Adam Nayman

Cinema Scope

09/28/2017

It's the strategic vaporousness of the entire enterprise-its canny refusal to be "about" anything except an immersion its own roiling, over-conscientiously detailed millennial milieu-that rankles.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

04/05/2022

4/4

Arnold's elegiac and naked picture functions as a road adventure born of Dickens and Kerouac.

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Jason Adams

My New Plaid Pants

07/02/2021

A

It's all the fixins. Pistol-whipped to perfection. My teeth positively ache for another helping of American Honey; I wanna eat until I pass right out.

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Michael J. Casey

Michael J. Cinema

06/19/2021

4.5/5

Arnold's acumen with the subversiveness that lurks just beneath the surface is playfully reserved, bubbling up only when absolutely necessary.

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Horror fan 4

Jan 20

A wild and crazy ride with kids. Shia labeouf leads a wonderful cast as they head on the road Trip of a lifetime selling magazine subscriptions. There's nothing shocking in this movie unless you don't like nudity. I will say though the boss character in this movie was useless.Not a lot of drama but it's still a good watch. Tim Treakle

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James B

Jan 10

I think the biggest complaint that I have is that this movie is about an hour too long. I think the story was just so so and really didn't warrant needing almost 3 hours to tell it. That being said the film's appearance is very well done. I thought that the way that the visuals were created in the film were well done, but the so so storry and total film time kind of brought it down for me.

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joseph S.

@BazookaJoe13 Nov 17

American Honey is hypnotic in a way that sneaks up on you. It doesn’t feel like a movie — it feels like being dropped into someone else’s life and just riding along, watching everything play out with no filter. Sasha Lane is unreal, completely natural, and the whole cast feels lived-in. The film nails the feeling of youth: the chaos, the drifting, the freedom that doesn’t even feel like freedom sometimes. The soundtrack hits, the visuals pull you in, and the whole thing moves like a road trip you don’t want to end. It’s immersive, honest, and it sticks with you without ever trying to be deep

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joe m

Aug 3

I sold magazines from 2003-2006 travel like this thru the entire U.S. this movie brings the best moments I lived and shows how fun and crazy it was at times. A great film.

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Darlene S

Jul 18

I thought this was such an important movie. Makes you think about where we are as a society and what has gone wrong. Meth, lack of education, imbalance of wealth. Depressing in so many aspects because this movie represents what is really going on in America. Having said that, I am glad I watched it. The beauty of nature was captured in the midst of all the ugliness of poverty. So many of our children are throwaways and they are just trying to survive. This movie is 9 years old, but it is so timely now.

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Jean-Luc M

Jul 10

I made an account just so I could comment. This is a horrible movie if you in anyway value your time please don't watch it. Don't be fooled nothing in this movie leads anywhwere even if it seems like it.

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Synopsis

Star (Sasha Lane), an adolescent girl from a troubled home, runs away with a traveling sales crew that drives across the American Midwest selling subscriptions door-to-door. Finding her feet in this gang of teenagers, one of whom is Jake (Shia LaBeouf), she soon gets into the group's lifestyle of hard-partying nights, law-bending days and young love.

Director: Andrea Arnold
Producer: Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy, Pouya Shahbazian, Alice Weinberg, Thomas Benski, Lucas Ochoa
Screenwriter: Andrea Arnold
Distributor: A24
Production Co: Parts & Labor, Pulse Films
Rating: R (Graphic Nudity|Drug/Alcohol Abuse|Language Throughout|Strong Sexual Content)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 30, 2016, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 27, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $662.8K
Runtime: 2h 42m

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