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A restless teenager escapes her troubled home and joins a traveling crew of young drifters selling magazines across the American Midwest. Immersed in a world of reckless partying, risky hustles, and fleeting romances, she searches for freedom and belonging on the open road.
badelf
May 4, 2026 · via TMDB
**American Honey (2016)** _Directed by Andrea Arnold_ This is Jack Kerouac for the Millennial generation, the first cohort that can't buy houses, can't find meaningful work, and stares directly into a hopeless, dystopian future with no illusions left. American Honey joins a lineage of films about economic desperation and systemic abandonment — Dogville, Requiem for a Dream, Parasite, for example. But where those films found formal inventiveness or narrative urgency, Andrea Arnold's road movie drowns in its own sprawl. I was genuinely looking forward to this, coming from the auteur who gave us Bird and Fish Tank, films that knew exactly how long they needed to be and what they were saying. American Honey is disappointing precisely because Arnold's talent is visible throughout, but buried under bloat. Sasha Lane, in her debut, did a fabulous job. She plays Star with raw authenticity, no actorly affectation, just survival and hunger and the desperate hope that maybe this van full of misfits is better than what she's leaving behind. The soundtrack is awesome, lots of fun, capturing the manic energy of kids trying to party away the void. But the film is 163 minutes long, and that's the problem. By the end of Act I, we understand the thesis: these kids use the endless party as anesthesia for millennial symptoms, the road trip as escape from a country that has nothing to offer them. Once that's established, there's no reason to dwell on it for another hour and a half. It feels like Arnold couldn't figure out how to resolve the love story between Star and Jake (Shia LaBeouf) early enough, so we're forced to watch repetitive scenes of scamming, partying, and emotional yo-yoing until she finally found an ending. The magazine crew itself is exploitation, a scam targeting both the kids selling and the people buying, and Arnold captures that vividly. But a film about exploitation shouldn't exploit the audience's patience. What could have been a tight, devastating 100-minute portrait becomes an endurance test. By the time the resolution arrives, I stopped caring.
DEzzNutz1001
May 20, 2017 · via TMDB
Pointless and terrible film that leads to nowhere. The Director of Fish Tank, was not able to capture lighting in a bottle twice. Most of the movie is spent in a van listening to rap music, the other large part is the boring romance story with a protagonist who seemed better to be a prostitute, then a door to door salesperson. Other characters are introduced but no depth is added to these characters, even though we spend a lot of time in a van with them. The movie doesnt even pay off with the Conclusion it seemingly leads too, it just ends.
Reno
Jan 14, 2017 · via TMDB
**To redefine the life and to discover the love.** From the British director of 'Fish Tank' fame, this is another a young struggling girl's story. Being brought up in a low income and abusive family, and because of that trying to redefine the life. Not about heading the wrong way like drugs and other related stuffs. So this is the story of an older teen girl named Star who flees the home to find her new life and love. It all begins when she meets a youngster in a supermarket and since then she followed him everywhere. Actually the film focused to tell a gang of youth who are door to door magazine subscription dealers. They travel all over the country and have all kinds of enjoyment. In order to stay in the group, Star has to prove her worth. She reserves her spot, but working on her own way. I always feared the narration might go to take a nasty twist. There came a couple scenes near to that, but compromised not to change the mood of the storytelling. Because it seems the writer was interested to reveal a girl try to achieve two goals. After coming to know one of it was staged, how she contemplates the other one crafted carefully. Not to forget, her fate, the future depends on it, since she's not well qualified to go out in the world to do whatever she wants. So I think it was a decent film with a decent message. If you know the director, you would know what her films talk about. Unlike 'Fish Tank', this is about an American girl. The influence of lifestyle, culture, almost everything related to youngsters covered. The lead actress was good. It was not Shia Labeouf's film, but in a supporting role, he did his best. There are a few others I knew, but they did not get big part. The only issue with it was the length. If you are okay with it, especially for a slow drama, then the film is enjoyable. 'American Honey' is like 'American Money', one of the ways people try to make their 'American Dream' come to true. This film is exclusively for drama genre fans. _7/10_
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