American Honey Page #2

Synopsis: Star, a teenage girl with nothing to lose, joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.
Director(s): Andrea Arnold
Production: Parts and Labor
  Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 13 wins & 35 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
79
Rotten Tomatoes:
78%
R
Year:
2016
163 min
$662,786
Website
6,815 Views


Hey!

Stop, stop, stop, stop.

Can you stop f***ing around and help me?

Yeah.

- You wanna go get the trunk?

- Here.

Hey.

[JAKE] Right here.

- Are you coming with us?

- Yes, ma'am.

You must be the little redneck Jake found.

- What's your name?

- Star, ma'am.

- That's your real name?

- Yes, ma'am.

- How old are you?

- Eighteen.

- So you're a grown woman now?

- Yeah, I guess.

[JAKE] Open it, open it.

- Where's that accent from?

- Texas.

So you're a Southern girl.

A real American honey like me.

You know that song?

No.

Get off, get off, get off, get off.

You know how to work hard?

Business is tough.

I only take hard workers.

- Shut the f*** up.

- [KID LAUGHS]

Yeah, I can work hard.

- Yo, get in there. Hey.

- Hey. What the f***'s going on?

- We're getting in.

- Get in the car.

That's what I'm doing.

[CREW LAUGHING]

You got anyone who's gonna miss you?

Not really.

Okay, good. You're hired.

[CREW CHEERING]

There's a new girl!

I guess she decided to show up.

[GIRL] Now you gotta turn

and lick his collar grease.

[LAUGHING]

- Yo, it's Mary Jane.

- Y'all got that?

- Hey, what's up? Are you new?

- Yeah.

Yeah? You should let me be

the first one to f*** you.

Hold up, hold up. Don't worry,

he wouldn't know where to

f***ing put it if you had it,

'cause you're still a virgin.

Man, I ain't no damn rookie,

and this is no damn toy.

Corey pulled his dick out

in front of the new girl!

[ALL LAUGHING]

You got me in the ass!

- [BOY 1] Get him!

- [BOY 2] Get his ass!

Get my shoe back.

[BOY 3] I'm sorry. My bad, y'all.

Yo, my bad!

[BOY 2] We got his ass!

Hey, you gotta learn to

leave the new girls alone.

[BOY 1] Don't worry, new girl.

We do that all the time when he does that.

Stop looking so damn nervous. Come on.

- We're gonna have fun.

- Come on, new girl.

I've been in my own world, dog.

Y'all ready?

Kansas City, here we come, bro.

I smell something good.

- A whole bunch of cigarettes.

- F***, no. It ain't pot.

I smell something even better...

- You want a shot?

- Thanks.

Hell, yeah, you can just hit me back

when you got some.

- What do we sell again?

- Magazines.

- People actually buy those anymore?

- F***, no.

- [BOY 1] What happened to the music?

- [BOY 2] Who has DJ control?

[BOY 2] I would say that too but... Hey!

- [HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING]

- [ALL CHEERING]

[GUYS CHANTING] Hey! Hey!

Yo, you act like we don't have a system.

[GIRL] Turn that sh*t up!

- [VOLUME INCREASES]

- [CREW SINGING ALONG]

[GIRL] Hey, don't give me

that sh*t, man. I don't need it.

[SPEAKING INDISTINCT]

Let me see you rap.

[BOY 1] She started stabbing everybody

in the restroom right there.

[BOY 2] Oh, damn.

Oh, damn, she got a bird brain.

A bird brain.

All right, what's next?

# You're a dumbass b*tch

I ain't f***in' with you

[ALL LAUGHING]

Remember Jay-Z? No?

- Yo, where are y'all from?

- [BOY] Sh*t, nigga.

All over.

Krystal gets people from all over.

I'm from Panama.

I'm QT. I'm from Panama City.

I'm the cutie of the crowd.

Yeah!

- What's up?

- I mean, she's the rider.

Like, if you're friends with her,

she will make sure that you are fine.

Regardless. Re-f***ing-gardless.

Yeah.

And she's a f***ing G.

Yeah!

I'm JJ.

I was born and raised in West Virginia,

and all these are my b*tches.

His name's GayGay.

Hey, right here is Pagan.

She's from New Jersey.

- I'm from Orlando, Florida. I...

- Riley. Mississippi.

Thank you. Thank you for interrupting me.

You're welcome.

My name is Austin, and I am from Florida.

Orlando, Florida.

I'm Runt,

and I'm from Tennessee, Nashville.

He's the baby of the group.

I got hit by a car when I was little.

- I punched him in his sh*t.

- [GIRL] I'm so sorry.

Hey, bro, you seen that dog?

[ALL LAUGHING]

- He's so cute, ain't he?

- Poor little Runt.

And this dude right here,

Billy he is our designated driver.

He's an awesome dude,

and he lives in West Virginia.

And this man can sing and play guitar.

- Hey, I'm Sean. I'm from Texas.

- Texas? I'm from Texas, too.

- Really?

- Yeah.

- You wanna see something?

- Yeah.

Holy sh*t. What is that?

- It's a flying squirrel.

- And he carries a rat.

He's chill.

- [SQUEAKS]

- [STAR CHUCKLES]

- Oh, yeah. That's so sick.

- Yeah, she might sh*t on you.

- Hi.

- She fell out of a tree.

- Her name is Sugar.

- Oh, yeah?

- Ow, sh*t...

- [LAUGHS]

F***. Was I not doing it right?

No, you gotta be gentle.

Kal with the long blonde hair,

he's from Missouri.

He really don't talk much about himself.

He's scared of flies, moths, birds,

and damn near anything that flies.

- Shut the f*** up.

- It's f***ing crazy, man.

- [IMITATES PLANE]

- [ALL LAUGHING]

- Corey, tell her where you're from.

- I'm Corey. I'm from Baltimore.

- I'm Katness, and I'm from Miami.

- She got mean pole-dancing skills.

Katness is so beautiful, loving, caring...

I don't even know

what to say about that girl.

So, I have this obsession

with Darth Vader.

To me, he's just like the epitome

of just darkness and suffering.

- [STAR] Yeah.

- Um, and misunderstanding.

Um, I feel like he was just a broken heart

that lost any hope for love and life.

What about Jake?

What about him? Where's he from?

- [QT] He's from Bakersfield.

- [AUSTIN] Let me tell you something.

This man, when it comes to his job,

he takes that sh*t serious, like.

This dude can sell,

like anything and everything.

You give it to him, he'll sell it.

- Jake is a power agent.

- I don't know what the f*** he says.

Maybe it's his personality, I'm thinking.

He is Krystal's b*tch, like super bad,

and he has to drive her around everywhere.

- She loves the ass...

- Meow! [IMITATES WHIP]

[ALL LAUGHING]

- [RILEY] A puppy in heat.

- [QT] Yeah, yeah.

Hey, Billy, can we stop? I need to pee.

[SEAN] Are we able to get us

something to drink?

[JJ] Hey, can we just pull over

and go randomly milk a cow?

[RUNT] Hey, there's water right on

the floor, man, right in front of you.

[QT] I'm gonna piss in my seat

if you don't stop.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

We'd better go through

a f***ing drive-through.

Food, yeah.

[HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING]

Is this of you selling?

Yeah, we're at a Walmart

selling some sh*t.

- So this is what I have to do?

- Yeah, sell magazines.

You just gotta come up with

your own spiels and sh*t,

like I use the whole,

"Oh, my dad was killed

in Afghanistan" sh*t.

[STAR] Sh*t, was he?

No, but, sh*t, people love

that patriotic sh*t.

- [COREY] Kansas City, y'all!

- Oh, sh*t. Kansas City.

I never seen so many

tall things in my life.

This is where Superman lives.

- [JJ] That b*tch is f***ing huge.

- [AUSTIN] Oh, hell, yeah, dude.

- I wonder what those buildings are?

- [KAT] It's a city.

[AUSTIN] I know, but I wonder what

the bigger buildings are?

Holy sh*t.

Look at those f***ing buildings.

Kansas City, baby!

- [STAR] Hell, yeah. Kansas.

- [QT] Wizard of Oz. Dorothy.

I ain't never seen so damn

many train tracks in my life.

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Andrea Arnold

Andrea Arnold, OBE (born 5 April 1961) is an English filmmaker and former actress. She won an Academy Award for her short film Wasp in 2005. She has since made the leap to feature films and television, including Red Road (2006), Fish Tank (2009), and American Honey (2016), all of which have won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Arnold has also directed four episodes of the Emmy Award-winning series Transparent, as well as all seven episodes of the second season of the Emmy Award-winning series Big Little Lies. more…

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