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American Honey is a 2016 British-American drama road film written and directed by the British filmmaker Andrea Arnold. The film stars Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, and Riley Keough. It is Arnold's first film to be set and filmed outside of the United Kingdom.
The film was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize.[4][5][6] The film was released in the United States on September 30, 2016, by A24. It was then released in the United Kingdom on October 14, 2016 by Universal Pictures and Focus Features.
Star (Sasha Lane) is a teenager living in Muskogee, Oklahoma. She takes care of two younger children while being groped by their father (Johnny Pierce II). While trying to hitchhike home she spies a car full of teenagers and makes eye contact with one of the boys inside Jake (Shia LaBeouf). She follows them to a local K-Mart making eye contact again with the stranger from the car. When his phone drops out of his pocket she follows him to the lobby to give it back to him where he kisses her on the cheek and tells her to come with him to Kansas where he will offer her a job. Star declines but the stranger nevertheless tells her to meet them in the parking lot of the local Motel 6.
Star decides to go with the group. Packing her belongings she takes the children she watches to a club where their mother (Chasity Hunsaker) is dancing telling her it is now her turn to take care of them. Though the mother refuses, Star ends up running away from the club and sleeping outside the van of the strangers till morning. The stranger, Jake, is delighted that she came. She is "interviewed" by Krystal, who runs the entire crew and who hires her after she establishes that Star is 18, no one will miss her and that she promises to work hard.
In the car on the way to Kansas, Star meets the other members of the crew including Pagan (Arielle Holmes) who is obsessed with Star Wars, in particular Darth Vader, and death.
The mag crew works by breaking up into smaller groups of two and selling door to door. Since Star is new she is paired with Jake, the veteran of the group. Star finds it difficult to sell as Jake lies to a potential customer (Laura Kirk) in order to make sales. She also distracts Jake by flirting and eventually kissing him. Her behaviour leads her to be called in to speak with Krystal who tells her that working with Star has made Jake post his lowest sales ever. She has Jake put tanning oil on her body as Star watches. Star promises to make better sales. The following day, annoyed by Jake, Star vows to make better sales than he does. She is picked up by three strangers in cowboy hats who offer to help her thinking she is being harassed by Jake. They bring her to their home where they offer to buy several of her magazines if she drinks the worm at the bottom of a bottle of mezcal. Star does so and makes the sale. Jake however, fearing the worst, arrives and threatens the men with his gun before stealing their car. Initially angry at Jake, Star is later touched that he came to find her and the two have sex. When the two return to the hotel for the evening however Jake tells her not to mention their relationship and takes the money she earned and gives it to Krystal.
For a while things between Jake and Star are tense and Krystal threatens to drop her on the side of the road if she keeps causing trouble. The crew end up living temporarily in a rundown house and Jake and Star renew their relationship. She asks him what his dreams are and he ends up showing her his private stash of cash and gold made up of items he's stolen from the homes he visited that he intends to use to buy a home.
Krystal dumps the girls off where oil workers are about to go to work in the morning. Star climbs in the back of their truck and tries to sell them magazines but one of the oil workers tells her he'll pay her five hundred dollars to go on a date with him. Star tells him she will do it for a thousand and the man agrees. During their "date" Star prostitutes herself for the money. After the man she was with drops her off she hears him being attacked. Shortly after a bloodied Jake asks her if she was hurt by the man and later asks if she slept with him. He throws a fit, smashing the belongings in the house before running off.
The following morning the crew get in the car and there is a new girl there, while Jake is missing. Krystal calls Star to her room and informs her she has let Jake go and that she paid him money for each girl he recruited and slept with all of them. Krystal later takes them to a poor area in Rapid City, South Dakota, to sell magazines. Star wanders into a house where she meets several affable children whose mother is on drugs. As Star's own mother died of meth she feels sympathetic towards them and later goes out to buy them groceries. At the pickup that day Jake is in the van and Star is confused as to whether to be happy to see him or not.
That evening the crew light a bonfire and celebrate. Dancing around the fire Star is pulled aside by Jake who privately hands her a turtle. Star takes it to the edge of the water and releases it before following the turtle into the water. She immerses herself fully before rising out of the water.
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| Directed by | Andrea Arnold |
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| Written by | Andrea Arnold |
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| Cinematography | Robbie Ryan |
| Edited by | Joe Bini |
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| Language | English |
| Budget | $3.5 million[2] |
| Box office | $1.8 million[3] |
