American Honey

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American Honey

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Released Sep 30, 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

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.

Feb 11, 2021

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Karen Han

CutPrintFilm

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.

Rated: 9/10

Dec 8, 2017

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Adam Nayman

Cinema Scope

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.

Sep 28, 2017

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

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

Rated: 4/4

Apr 5, 2022

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Jason Adams

My New Plaid Pants

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.

Rated: A

Jul 2, 2021

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Michael J. Casey

Michael J. Cinema

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

Rated: 4.5/5

Jun 19, 2021

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David B

A long boring movie with not much of a story line. Not a movie for young adults. Frontal male nudity, intercourse, drinking and drug use. Didn't see what critic's saw in it. More of a Fart than Art...

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

04/04/25

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Ram L

This is the most unwholesome, filthy-in-the-literal-sense movie I’ve ever watched. → For one thing, there’s this weird cinematographic technique where for about half the screen time, Sasha Lane’s face takes up half or more the screen. I have no idea what this achieves, but then maybe I’m not good at appreciating cinematographic art. → There isn’t a plot; this is apparently being celebrated (“it’s not supposed to go anywhere! It’s just how things are!”)—but I’m sure there are plenty of folks who won’t find it worth two and a half hours to just see things happening. The real problem, though, is that except for the main character (Star), the characters are *all* unwholesome. They happen to be poor and/or uneducated, which shouldn’t be a problem at all — but they’re just not good people! Some look like born-again druggies. Krystal is a characterless thief. Jake is a heartless lecher. There’s not *one* character who is good-hearted, or strong as a person, or friendly, or likeable, or... anything Good under the sun! Except for Star, the characters just form a bunch of bad persons. Not the kind of bad person who’ll knife you for $20; worse, the kind of bad person you wouldn’t want as a friend.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/10/25

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Betty D

Sasha Lane is a revelation

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/06/24

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CRIMSON H

My whole rating is because of the ending. The movie is 2 HR 44 MIN. Even though it has a Kevin Costnor run time it keeps you interested but then it ends. It answer no questions, no character arcs are finished, the story goes nowhere. So the ending ruins the movie. This is one movie I say don’t waste the time to watch it.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

09/18/24

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Colin M

A study of lowlife American youths getting by, travelling, selling magazines, stealing, having sex. Movie was too long at 2H 32 mins and lacked an ending. Nothing special here.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

09/10/24

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TINA B

I can't belive I had never heard of our seen this movie until today. A24 NEVER disappoints.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/11/24

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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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