American Honey (film)
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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 |
| Box office | $1.8 million |
 Filmmaker Andrea Arnold On 'American Honey' And Preserving Mystery In Film, 20:42, September 29, 2016, Fresh Air with Terry Gross
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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. 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 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 Jake (Shia LaBeouf), one of the boys.
She follows them to a local K-Mart, and returns Jake's phone after it falls out of his pocket. 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 Jake nevertheless tells her to meet them in the parking lot of the local Motel 6.
Star changes her mind. Packing her belongings, she takes the children she watches to the club where their mother (Chasity Hunsaker) dances, telling her it is her turn to care for them. Though the mother refuses, Star runs away from the club and sleeps outside the van of the strangers till morning.
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 Star promises to work hard.
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